Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them?

I had an Onkyo HT processor for a week, same for Emotiva. Same super thin sound.  Don't ask me why, but talk about a serious let down.

New Colts is not like 20-30 years ago... big disappointment in assembling quality and materials. Levies jeans got pure too.. audio equipment seems to be fine. 

DW drums and DW hardware. Waaay worth it. Gibson Les Paul. Way to spotty QA for a lot of money. Rega turntables. After loads of research, and a fair bit of shopping to buy a Planar 3 (a lot of money for me) very disappointed by poorly designed deck with ground hum.

@tatyana69 Agree with you about the difference between B&W d2 and d3. I’ve had both.
My first time out I thought my Marantz 8001 amp was the bee’s knees. But then my McIntosh 6700 integrated made short work of the Marantz. Now, my Pass Labs has taken things to the next level and put the 6700 to rest. Given the pattern, there always seems to be great joy followed by a discovery of what’s next, which is what I didn’t know I was missing with my previous setup. It’s been said on here that more money doesn’t mean better. But it’s kind of gone that way.
If there’s ever an audio convention again, I suppose I’ll discover that my B&W 803 d3s are lacking in some dimension I haven’t yet experienced and I will jilt the speakers I currently love. I still have my Marantz and listen to it very occasionally to remember how much more I have now. But the Marantz had its time and I loved it. So did my old McIntosh. While I might cringe now at what I used to love, each was a blast if only for a while.

I had a deep love affair with Naim, as many British hifi-enthusiasts do.
Naim have a very cleverly marketed upgrade path where power supplies and separate components can be upgraded to the next up the chain. It is an addictive process. However I lost that love for Naim and realised the hype that was the ’upgrade path’ when I discovered that a 2 box Class A Vitus set-up cost much less than a top-of-the-range 6 box Naim System and sounded significantly better.

I disagree with the dismissal of B&W in some of these posts. The lower end of their range may be bright sounding, but the 800 series, when integrated into powerful quality amplification, sound absolutely sublime with absolutely no 'edginess'.  The top of that range, the 800 D3, is one of the best-priced high-end speakers in the market, competing with Wilsons and their ilk at far higher prices.