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the one that got away - how do you handle grief?

I just lost a bid for my dream speakers that I had been chasing for a decade. It was pretty stupid because I missed the last hour and maybe I would have won it with another $100. But maybe it's a sign, it's just a piece of hardware, that I should not be obsessed with. - "you can't always get what you want"

Did you always get the gear you thought would make you whole?

parkergetdean
yyman23
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I missed out on a McIntosh MT10 turntable for a great price (85% off!!!) a few years back, and it haunted me until recently, when I got my hands on my dream speakers for a really good deal. You win some, you lose some.

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tabl10s
1,129 posts
 

I missed two Plasmatron's and think them all the time. 

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tabl10s
1,129 posts
 

@Tattoo,

 

What mods did they have? The Xover's were crap doing with the EQ! 

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gents
168 posts
 

I just beat myself up for being a c×nt when I shouldn’t have been and keep it moving. Almost invariably, I’m then energized to go find another one and pay more...as a type of self-inflicted punishment.

douglas_schroeder
3,336 posts
 

Over forty years, I occasionally succumbed to the temptation to chase a fantasy product either for aesthetics or supposed extreme performance. Meh. If you are not prepared to build the rest of the rig around it to make it sound reasonably good to excellent, it’s not worth it. YMMV 

Don’t get the idea that you will drop your fantasy product into your rig and it will outdo all others. The odds of that are vanishingly low.

If you’re buying it because you think it looks cool, don’t expect great sound.  

 

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