Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them?

Schiit Audio. I bought their little headphone amp a couple of years back for my son. So completely unlistenable. I don't know if I got a bad one or what, but it should have never left their grounds. It just really turned me off of that brand.

Schiit Audio. I bought their little headphone amp a couple of years back for my son. So completely unlistenable. I don’t know if I got a bad one or what, but it should have never left their grounds. It just really turned me off of that brand.

Same experience for me.... Unlistenable....It takes 5 seconds....I selll it the day after and never look back to this brand....

I imagine that their newer products were better but i was never tempted to verify, especially after trying another cheap amplifier  that crush them at the same price....

Let me go back a few years....

I had a marantz 8b back in the 70s.   Through my Rogers LS3/5a, I knew I had died and gone to heaven.  Sold the 8b in the mid 80s, Parted with the Rogers around 2000.  I had a chance to listen to both (separately) in the past few years and could not understand what I saw (and heard) in either of them years ago. Hmmm.
Similarly, at that time I could not see what all the fuss about Maggies and electrostats was about.  Now I own Maggies and one of my best listening friends has a couple sets of Martin Logans.  I can’t imagine owning a box speaker again.  But, I still love EL34 tube amps in their modern versions.

and Wilson has switched to a silk dome tweeter and different voicing

Yes, yes they have. 

Is it too late to weigh in? This thread being 3 days silent.

see Erik, you start a thread with the best of intentions and it goes off the side rails...so let’s get back to beers... went on a 2 year Belgian/monk (thinking there must be a Thelonius connection) only to tire of the heaviness of Chimay although Duvel still holds its own.  recently exploring  the Sam Smith offerings.

after my Infinity Studio Reference Monitors, I thought the emit tweeters were overhyped and gave up on the brand. No matter what room or associated equipment, I couldn’t get satisfying sound.  Then last year spent some time with Bill of Miller Sound listening to a mid level Inifinty and couldn’t believe my ears.
awakened me to the possibility of hidden gold in used Infinity’s available “for a song”.
BTW, I agree with previous poster reg LG fridge, constant noises it makes ruins my audio sessions. Barely 14 months and already had a breakdown.