whats the biggest mistake you made?

hooper,your a mess,i love it,i too had a hissy fit with one of my rigs,i had an equlizer that i couldnt get right & i ended up throwing it down a flight of steps,damm that felt good.

Getting sucked into the whole Naim Audio spiral was a big mistake for me. Luckily, I bought wisely and didn't lose money. However, my wife said that she's never seen me so agitated and upset at the state of my system. I'm glad I got out while I still had my sanity (and bank account) intact - I was about to drop seven figures on the 252 preamp!

Audio Research and Totem have shown me that incredible sound quality doesn't have to cost a mint. It's not cheap, but that's all relative :)

Biggest audiophile mistake was not buying thousands of Lp records more than I did in my youth. A quick second was not buying a good friends Aesthetix Callisto Signature for dirt cheap (relatively speaking) before he begrudgingly put it up on AudiogoN. Hmmmmmmmmm!

Two mistakes... (1)buying all my gear at retail prior to finding Audiogon, and (2)tried two different home theater systems at retail prices, only to realize you get bigger bang for your buck with simpler, high quality 2 channel system (no offense to home theater fans).

Islander - You live near me I think (Seattle), so you can come and check out
my testacle in person. It's pickled in vinegar and we keep it in the pantry
after our dog, Diesel, knocked the Ball jar off the shelf in the bedroom it had
been on, and almost got the damn thing after he ate through most of the
brine I'd been storing it in.

I dunno though, I've been looking for the same 98's I sold as they're the ones
with the synergy with my system. I can't tell you how many bottles I've
already tried. I hired a detective to find my stones in 02' and the trail ended
at a fish tank in an Ohio Thai joint just off the Interstate. The gumshoe tells
me he has it on good authority that they're holding up a plastic sunken
treasure chest (ironic, ain't it), but that they'd be hard to pick out from the
rest of the acquarium gravel. I told him, just get me the tank, I'll know my
stones when I see'em. He put in an offer on my behalf for the tank, but the
place was sold to new owners and now it's a Pizza joint an the fish tank's
gone without a trace.

Marco