What’s a mistake you made by being impulsive?

You are going to laugh, but I bought the new JBL L100 Classics because of the orange grills. I wanted them when they were out in the 70’s so when the new ones came out with those grills, I bought them. So, I disconnected my GE Triton Ones and set up the JBL speakers on their stands. Bass was aenemic and I was surprised, especially since the JBL's had 12 inch woofers.

After a month, I tried a Bellini and Schiit 4 band EQ. Well, I liked the Schiit, but the extreme low frequency was at 20 hz while the Bellini wa @60hz, so I kept the Bellini and boosted the bass 3db at 60hz and decreased the 2K frequency by 2db. It was much better, so then I bought a SVS PB2000Pro 12 inch sub. That necessitated a long pair of interconnects which I had to buy (Blue Jeans Mogami) and after 5 months, the sound is as good as the GE Triton Ones were that I sold to pay for the sub and EQ.

There was nothing wrong with the GE, if only JBL didn’t come with orange grills, I wouldn’t have bothered. I bought orange fabric (pretty much see through) to change the SVS sub grill to orange. If anyone has hints on doing that, hit me up!  So that is my sad story, all for orange grills.

Ehh, the way I see it, if one can afford it and make it work within one's budget, then it's no big deal; it'll probably bring some new joy into one's life. 

On the other hand, if it causes you to eat ramen noodles for half a year, or it prevents you from making badly needed repairs to one's car used mainly for work, then yeah, it was a mistake!  Hah!  

Maybe by taking too many steps to get to where I already knew that I'd end up. But even those 'mistakes' revealed more about the hobby and increased my depth of knowledge - even if it sometimes drained my bank account!

I bought into the hype and bought Tekton Double Impacts.  

I made many mistakes 7 years ago trying to create my audio system...

I read reviews and was deceived with many low cost products and 7 pairs of headphones i used no more......

Finally i take matter in my hand with listening experiments...3 years ago

To say a story short, i am no more gullible consumer and know that to create imaging, depth , soundstage, listener envelopment, natural timbre, any "relatively good pieces of gear" well chosen MAY do, IF after decreasing the electrical noise floor, and controlling vibrations/resonance, you STUDY acoustic with your ears and made simple experiments...

But people think that it takes a costly tube amplifier for example to create depth imaging....This is how superstitious consumers are....Price is for them a guarantee ...

And acoustic for them is a few costly panels you glue to the walls...a secondary addition to their branded name costly gear....

The worst mistake people could do is ignore acoustic ...

Who will believe that with 1/2 inch in less on a 6 inches straw added to an Helmholtz tubes with an aperture of less than 2 centimeters one can collapse the soundstage dramatically in a room? Or the opposite?

i know i did it....

Dont make any mistake study acoustic and psychoacoustic not the catalog of acoustic panels sellers....Quit upgrading and think....