Selling a Superphon Revelation preamp & replacing it with a McIntosh. Probably the worst sounding preamp I've owned. I was young then & thought that the McIntosh would sound better because it sold for so much more. Lesson learned... Around that same time I sold a Yamaha B1 amp to go with a tubed audio research. Not that the tubed audio research sounded bad, I just with I wouldn't have sold the B1. It was a glorious amp!
Did you ever mismatch equipment ?
Sometimes we regret having made a certain purchase, not always does it bring us what we expected. We know that it is possible to have a complete mismatch, so may be we can reveal some of our wrong choices here, just as a kind of "lessons learned". Of course, I realize that it is relative, as what may sound correct to us may not sound correct to others. Nevertheless, I’m sure some of us feel that we made a wrong choice, so who is ready to admit...