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Your most disappointing purchase or audition?

I've had a few.

bought a Naim Nait 3. Loved it in the store. Returned it within a week- way forward at home

Brought home some CJ preamp to audition perhaps 22 years ago. Noisy as anything and a turn off transient destroyed a tweeter (though years later i bought a CJ 17LS2 which I thought was the finest preamp I ever heard in my home)

Auditioned a VPI table (HW19) in a store- the store just could not get the belt to stay on. Bought a Rega instead. This was in perhaps 1990.

Fortunately, I never really experienced buyers remorse say 6 months or more after settling on a piece of gear.

Finally, there have been too many speakers that got stellar write ups which I just didn't care for.
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knghifi
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+1 Shakeydeal. It's an occupation for some seeking to get insulted.

This also speaks volumes for Agon moderator. From my experience, this is the only site censors for the most benign post.
knghifi
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Atmasphere, you don't have anything to worry about. Yes we're human but your reputation is SOLID.

I'm NOT a customer of yours but was seriously considering the MA-2s.
knghifi
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Tubes108, my apologies. I lost sight you were just participating in the thread.
knghifi
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I find these types of BEST or most disappointed threads are useless. Eventually all components ever produced will be posted.
knghifi
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Magico is very TRUE to source so important to drive them properly.

When I was in market for speakers, I demoed Q3 and Q5. The dealer demonstrated their chameleon characteristics in driving them in 2 configurations. One all Spectral and other tube pre with SS amp. All Spectral was horrific and other EXCELLENT. At the end I decided on another brand.

What's interesting is dealer said at shows, they usually drive them faster than the Spectral configuration. Probably reason Magico earned poor musicality reputation especially with SET fans since most only experienced them at shows.

Syntax, can you briefly describe the system you demoed Q5? Just curious.
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