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Premature gear defenestrations

I'm wondering if anyone has stories of episodes when you upgraded gear only to realize that tubes or some other smaller change would scratched that itch?

These fora are chock full of comparisons between various kinds of gear -- often involving tubes or other important parts of the chain. Too often, the comparisons are apples-to-oranges because too many variables are in play.

But we sometimes neglects those variables, ourselves.

So...can you think of a time you sold a piece of gear only to realize later that you should have tried different tubes or better cables, etc.? In other words, times you didn't quite do due diligence and made a change too quickly? What happened?
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hilde45 OP
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@mulveling Thanks for that account! 
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hilde45 OP
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I don’t understand “sold a piece of gear.”

You might want to get a CAT scan.
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hilde45 OP
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I came up with this question because sometimes people make changes to their gear without first realizing its potential. People may not realize that tubes can be changed, or that a number of other factors could either be optimized -- room, electrical, etc.

Some, like @ghdprentice haven't made mistakes -- they do their research and only move cautiously. The question of this post isn't for the non-mistake-makers, really, but I like the description of his process.

@mapman mentions, truly, that good sound is largely very subjective thing and uncertain. The question doesn't presume otherwise; I'm asking what mistake *you* made and then realized it was a mistake for *you.* In other words, the issue of objectivity isn't invoked by the question -- or at least that was not my intent.


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