Being at a level where the average component is a couple thou, guess I just have a hard tine imagining people throwing that kind of money around without due consideration. Not my style. This whole subject is like from Mars to me. I would have to be nuts to spend that kind of money so frivolously. Never happened. Not even once.
Top Ten "Reasons I Don't Like This Component"
Many of us have had the short term experience of demoing or acquiring a piece of gear that, when we installed it in our systems, we soon realized that it wasn’t going to work.
An example I recently cited was after home demoing a CJ 17LS preamp years ago. I couldn’t stand the banging sound of the volume relays while adjusting. The unit sounded fine enough musically but this particular feature was intolerable.
What other features or quirks of components have you had similar experiences with over the short term? I’m not talking about chronic upgraditis, which most of us are afllicted with, just short term experiences that make us say, "this does not work for me."
No need to list ten reasons, just one or two. I'll keep a tab on them and summarize later.
An example I recently cited was after home demoing a CJ 17LS preamp years ago. I couldn’t stand the banging sound of the volume relays while adjusting. The unit sounded fine enough musically but this particular feature was intolerable.
What other features or quirks of components have you had similar experiences with over the short term? I’m not talking about chronic upgraditis, which most of us are afllicted with, just short term experiences that make us say, "this does not work for me."
No need to list ten reasons, just one or two. I'll keep a tab on them and summarize later.