Hi-Fi that has not met the initial expectation placed upon it.
B&W Zeppelin, AKG K450.
B&O Beogram 6000. IT chose when it would work and when it wouldn't so got Technics SL10 and it never missed a beat to this day. And, if you were so inclined, it would play on it's side; so you could put it in a row of lps and you could easily miss it.
Any of the iPod range, just not good enough.
Hell, I bought a cheap mp3 player from Dixons back in 2006, a Matsui with only 512Kb memory that sounded better than the iPod that they were trying to foist on me and 5 times the price.
cyrus budget gear (can't comment on higher priced stuff but if they share DNA, then...)
meridian digital systems (I can't understand what's all the fuss is about).
kharma speakers. for the price nothing exceptional.
also most of SS amps in general fail for me to "get out of the way of music". it feels like the soundstage, regardless of its depth, will always have a background, as if in case of a relief, rather than free standing sculpture.
Monitor Audio Br2 speakers. Good little speakers but I was hoping for a lot more from them. My own fault for not listening to them first.
Every Cyrus amp combination in every room, until you get to monobloc country and about £7k by which time value for money vanishes. Don't even like the chidlrens toy looks either, yet I so wanted to love it all, especially as the 6 cdp I had was fantastic.
Just a quick observation that quite a few are anti-Cyrus posts - maybe the hyping just got too great? I was so underwhelmed by the 8xpd integrated amp that it took all of 30 minutes to swap my kandy K2 back, it really was that bad.
Discovering first hand that the £250 Onkyo TX-8050 stereo receiver sounded like a £250 stereo receiver rather than the giant-slaying beast it was being hyped up to be.
had you bought it? or just demo'd it?
klipsch image x10i let down, took them right back..
Mains cables. most of them do not work. Made my system sound worst. Only when I invested in a proper main conditioner did I notice how bad the cables on thier own sounded.
I'm with PP. The Arcam A70. After the A65+, which was a cracking little amp, the A70 was a spectacular EDITED-up by Arcam. Flat, insipid and quite frankly boring. One of the worst amps I've had the misfortune to own and it could/should have been so good.
The only piece I've owned and deeply disappointed in was Grado headphones. After so much hype, awards, adulation, so they were purchased on a whim... oh boy it's hard to describe the disappointment. To me they are headphone quivalent to Cyrus...
lol
Between?!
Discovering first hand that the £250 Onkyo TX-8050 stereo receiver sounded like a £250 stereo receiver rather than the giant-slaying beast it was being hyped up to be.