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What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby?

For example :I recently learned a hard lesson- I accidentally ran voltage thru my $3000 MC cartridge (kiseki purple heart).  I have a TT with 5 prong connector and a phono cable with a 5 prong connector.  I accidentally swapped where they plugged into and ran electric thru the tonearm into the cartridge.  It was a stupid - not thinking- hasty mistake. When I corrected the problem the cartridge was fried.  An avalanche of four letter words followed!

So what has been your biggest and/or costliest mistake?
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rickytickytwo
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Absence of knowledge is a killer.
My biggest mistake was buying speakers that dipped below 1 ohm (9 Kappas) and pairing them with power amps that had a lot of watts, but only a 4 ohm output rating (2 Carver M-4.0t). To make matters worse, I was going to change the crossovers on the speakers and I had bought a couple powerful subs with passive crossovers to try to see if I could still get the speakers to open up, but never got the chance due to a fire. 
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