Dumbest audio purchase ever?

[Still-One]

It's a toss up between C-J pre and amps and a Richard Gray power conditioner.

[Higgens]

I will admit to making one or two purchases in the middle of happy hour. Seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

[Cohibaman]

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[Ravens52]

Embarrassed to admit………..about 20 years ago a Bose Lifestyle 28 system.

[radio times]

Fortunately I have a few hi fi shops and chain store nearby, and they are industrious in insisting on setting up a listen. It won't be hard to upgrade from my Ruark R5 (review shortly) if and when the time comes. Heck, we've even got a few Mackies now; not many, but a few. It has been, as the saying goes, a long time in coming.

[greekgod]

Bose headphones. Very expensive and literally fell apart after a few months due to poor build quality. I didn't even use them that much since I was rotating them with my Sennheisers and Beyerdynamics.

[Beet Farmer]

Back in 1980s !! I owned a very nice little Hafler DH110 I built as a kit. For some reason I suddenly had a desire to own a Sony digital preamp, with all sorts of 'effects'. So I traded in the Hafler.
Well after getting bored with the sound effects i stopped listening to music. Later on, I wondered why did I stop? and I knew it was the POS Sony.

Sold the Sony and bought a Counterpoint 2000. Nice preamp (when it was working)

The 'other mistake' plenty of folks made... When CD came along, selling all the LPs turntable etc... I WAS LUCKIER than most though as i had a chance to buy a Classical Lp collection cheap. I made me decide yeah owning a turntable was good. And that led me to buy thousands more used records when they were basically being given away in late 90's early 2000's! Lucky break there.

[radio times]

The Sony entry level in ear in a 'plush' range. Nothing but treble.

[clpetersen]

The Olive 06HD, after the Olive 04HD. Luckily purchased on Olive's auction, and low bid at that (should have been a clue when they accepted my offer...)

Had over "130 dB of dynamic range and 256 times the resolution of CD's".

[Formerly YB-2]

Hmmm........... McIntosh MA2275. My dealer warned me it wasn't like the rest of McIntosh's tube gear going in, but I was too smart to believe him. Thankfully, he did take it back at the original $$ when I traded for a C2200/MC75 pair after a very disappointing several weeks. On the upside, all the tubes I rolled in it were still good for the new gear.