Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible?

I auditioned for "Pirates of Penzance" once.  Does that count?

Schiit Audio Magni. 

Granted, this is only a $99 headphone amp, but how in the world can they sell it? Hard to describe actually, but it produced some really strange digital to analog conversion. Maybe I had a flawed unit, but I returned it the very next day. 

Denon and Marantz - awful.  I used to think Onkyo was a better budget A/V receiver, but after using Anthem - no contest for Anthem.  I A/B'ed Dynaudio Special 40's with Martin Logan Motion 40's - Motion 40 smoked the Dynaudio - that surprised me.  I was surprised that Classe class D amps (Sigmas) smoked both Moon and McIntosh.  Parasound Halo P6 was pretty rank, the phono preamp was worse than $29 Behringer.  Lost $500 to try that unit.  The $1.09 a foot KarmaKable still some of the best sounding speaker cable to my ears (10 guage tin coated copper).  I tried the PS Audio BHK250, sounded good, but underpowered - then I tried Jeff Rowland - ummm - no contest.

No not this week.

I wouldn't say terrible, but I simply didn't enjoy the sound of some Paradigm 5Fs I listened to at the local shop a while back. It just sounded harsh. Source and amplification were McIntosh. I simply wasn't impressed for the price. The B&W I tried next were more to my liking.