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whats the biggest mistake you made?

ever sell a peice of gear then realize you made one big mistake or find a better way to run it after its allready gone?

for me it was the mcintosh mc2102 tube amp that wasnt cuttin the mustard or so i thought,since then ive tried many amps & none have gave me the same feeling as that amp.

most of the changes ive made over the years have been good or atleast i could live with them but that one change really taught me alot,im taking things alot slower nowdays & taking the time to hear the different gear i bring in before rushing to decisions.

mike.

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jmcgrogan2
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Yeah, my mistake was selling a BAT VK-31SE. I ran through 6 preamps from Mark Levinson, Krell, VAC, CJ, Threshold, etc, 'til I realized that I'd made a mistake. I did recover after time, and the story ends happily, because now I have a BAT VK-51SE.
Sometimes you're not sure what is doing what in a system, good or bad, and if you pick the wrong one to change, it can sure foul things up.
To help make sure that doesn't happen again, I now buy the 'new' item, and don't sell the replaced item until I'm sure it's been replaced, and the sound is better, not just different.

John

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nsgarch
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I gave away a Mitchell Cotter step up transformer abgout 17 years ago. Who knew?!
garebear
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Sold a beautifiul pair of Unity Audio Signature 1's in a rare Koa wood finish.....I sold them for next to nothing ( after the company went under ) They would have sounded great in my Surround Sound system ..... should have kept them for the price I sold them for !!!!
jafox
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I have a few to share:

Sold an ARC SP-10 years ago as I was sure the LS2B was the ticket to refinements across the board. What a total disappointment that was! Meanwhile, it took an incredibly expensive purchase of the PH2/LS5 to get the SP-10's musicality back.

I would have thought the SP-10 experience would have taught me a lesson but I did it again. I sold an ARC VT130 amp for a pair of Classic 150 mono amps. The magic in the music was immediately gone. The CL150s were so analytically sounding and the VT130 controlled the Magnepan 3.3 speakers far better than the CL150s. The VT130 (non SE model) under $2k is an awesome bargain.

The other major mistake I made was waiting far too long to try a power conditioner. What the Audio Magic Eclipse did for my system was like no other upgrade I ever experienced before. It was as if I upgraded 4 components at once ... and all for just under $2k. No other single purchase even comes close to this.

John
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