Your single most significant purchase mistake?

i noticed the recently initiated thread on this mike powell fellow and his youtube posts were abruptly taken down... i had posted details of my unacceptable experience on that thread dealing with him

this is a fun informative thread

there are numerous items listed by others, highly respected, experienced users, that i have tried myself in the past and actually liked a lot... while i moved on, these items certainly would not be on my ’top worst mistakes’ list

big thiels, muse amp, vac pa 100 (i had/still have the 4 chassis 90-c’s), nht 3/3's... of course every component, at any level of quality and cost, has strengths and weaknesses, but i think this just shows how varying personal tastes can be, how different specific use cases/applications are, how important synergy is in systems with mating components... fascinating stuff...

early class d mark levinson mono blocks circa 2006/7... omg... how can something that looks so pretty sound sooo bad...

@mijostyn ... the missus is on line 2 holding for you...😂