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The 5 stages of making a bad audio purchase

This is tongue in cheek people, so let’s keep the replies light shall we?
The 5 Stages of Making a Bad Audio Purchase:

1. Denial: "My system, which before was of course totally awesome, is now totally awesomer! The sound stage isn’t just 3 dimensional any more, it is 4 dimensional. I can feel fingers sliding across guitar strings, drums are like my head is against the snare, and the bass goes 10hz lower ...."

2. Anger: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T BELIEVE MY SYSTEM WENT FROM AWESOME TO AWESOMER!!!. You obviously have a crap system, your ears are crap, you are just jealous."

3. Bargaining: "Hey, this gadget will make your already awesome system totally awesomer! 60% of MFR list is a great deal for it! That’s 40% off and you don’t even have to pay tax. I am only selling it because I am upgrading to the even awesomer version 2. My loss is your gain."

4. Depression: "I can’t believe I spent $5,000 on this thing ....."

5. Acceptance: "Sure, 75% off list is fair."
atdavid
atdavid OP
736 posts
 
If you find this thread so "toxic", why did you feel a need to reply to it? You could have simply ignored it. You could have assumed that people who are here are adults and can make a similar choice for themselves.


uberwaltz8,141 posts11-05-2019 2:25pmYou forgot a point I am sure.......

 
:Who relishes making threads that are toxic but tries to coat them in sugar and disguise them as jest.


cleeds
6,601 posts
 
atdavid
ou could have assumed that people who are here are adults ...
I’m not at all sure that’s a safe assumption. There seem to be several juveniles who regularly post here - based on their simplistic renderings - and their clamoring to be treated as "adults" suggests that they aren’t.
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uberwaltz
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I maybe wrongly assumed this was still a free world where as long as I follow forum rules I can post what I choose and where I choose.

Maybe you consider nobody is allowed to post a view of your OP that contradicts it's purported purpose.

Would that not put you in the same boat as those who you repudiate here?

Just curious, no need to waste your precious time to reply.....
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ieales
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@elizabeth 
Planning, can I afford this?
Why always the money?
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

@millercarbon
Here in Washington we have some sweet green bud that will get you there in one step
Comments like that negate all post validity. c.f. "What have you been smokin'?" Perhaps we should have icons next to names : wine or shot glass, joint, bong or syringe?

In more than ½ century, I've never evaluated anything when not stone cold sober. I don't even look that dumb!!!

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