Disappointments

The reality for me is I’ve never had a dealer that was close to offer me the opportunity. So I will claim some ignorance here….and the more I think, I do see how you could get the overall sound signature of a piece of gear at the dealer, knowing it may be different at home and require some tweaks  

Placement and room acoustics.

Always a Turntable, the worst was a French Era 3033, to top it all it went rusty

Thinking about it: a Transcriptor turntable with a Vestigal tonearm was a loud bark up the wrong tree…

Sometimes our nervous enthusiasm helps us pull the trigger when we should really be holstering that thing. I’ve done it a bunch of times. The best antidote would be to keep in mind what you’re paying for these mistakes we'll occasionally make.

You have to work on paying what you most likely be able to sell it for- just in case it starts to suck fast like the last thing you made a mistake on.

Or, if you pay a little more and take a little bit of a beating when you unload it, at least it’s just a little bit of a beating.