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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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I'm going to stick the boot into Musical Fidelity as well. Gave up on them years ago.

Starting with auditioning the X-Ray gear then more of their subsequent overpriced, overhyped designs with cheap components and big-cases designs. To me, the MF sound is: bright, thin, sterile, cheap...just outright lame with all kinds of music!

I shake my head at all the review laudits they get, especially when they show internal photos of the sparse circuit boards with cheap op-amps and ICs in a gigantic, empty case. In every product category they're in, there are tons of more compelling, thoughtfully designed options from smaller companies, for less money.
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