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Worst mismatches in equipment: your warnings

Hi
I opened this thread to gather some info on equipment or brands that are not friendly to each other.I had a terrible mismatch between Theta Pearl CD transport and CAL Alpha.
It was the worst sound i ever had.After a couple of weeks of trying to convince myself i went back to the store and luckily was given a store credit.
The other mismatch was when i picked up a used Legacy preamp which worked on the same RF frequencies as my Jerrod cable box.Channels up and down raised volume up and down.
I wonder what other mismatches are out there?
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mbacinello
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I can't say this is a bad sounding mis-match cause its not, in fact it sounds better than it has any right to for the price, but NAD gear and Totem Arros should not be matched together...the problem only exists with the Arro model where the woofer plate and tweeter plate overlap and there is metal to plastic contact...the discharge frequency of NAD gear causes the woofer and tweeter plate to vibrate causing a distorion in the tweeter at around 500-600hz..its an easy problem to fix, and it may go unnoticed unless your a careful listener but its there...i also heard the same problem with bryston gear so i can only assume they wouldnt be a good match either...
in every other respect the sound is good though
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