The WORST system or component you have heard?

[amarocknrollstar]

What be the worst you have heard? It could represent poor quality, terrible value for money or even just a poor combo of great sounding products.

 

[gregory]

linn pretek : linn powertek : amc ! only joking. to be honest most equipment iv'e listened to has been up to scratch but the worst value for money has to be the linn cd12. £12,000 at launch i believe and imo no better than a marantz cd 52.

 

[Anonymous]

Ha! Bose Lifestyle 48.

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Jan Hibma"]Ha! Bose Lifestyle 48.[/quote]Second that.

Throw in the Bose 3-2-1 as well.

 

[Anonymous]

I've sold alot of Bose 3-2-1's, GS's, GSX's and GSXL's already, but I can't quite say I support the product. My boss loves to sell Bose because of the mark-up, but I do not. I only do so because I have to, and because most of the time it's easy to sell, but I'd rather not..

 

[Anonymous]

my friend had some eltax floorstanders they were punchy but absolutely no emotion

 

[Anonymous]

oh and a ariston amp

 

[Anonymous]

I hear ya buddy. Knowing something about electronics is a curse when you sell them for a living.

 

[Anonymous]

My first speakers where a bargain pair of Jamo Studio 160's.

Seemed alot of speaker for £79 sadly it was just alot of b*****ks for £79

Without doubt the worst sounding bit of kit ive ever bought.

http://www.thelonious.lt/pictures/Jamo_Studio-160.jpg

 

[amarocknrollstar]

[quote user="gregory"]linn pretek : linn powertek : amc ! only joking.[/quote]
Lol, had a good laugh at that!

[quote user="gregory"]the linn cd12. £12,000 at launch i believe and imo no better than a marantz cd
52[/quote]
Give the linn credit - the CD52 is quite a player!

 

[amarocknrollstar]

[quote user="darkside82"]my friend had some eltax floorstanders they were punchy but absolutely no emotion[/quote]
What kind were they?
Curious as I've still got my Symphony 6's and absolutely adore them. Rather attached, though I don't use them now.

 

[drummerman]

Not so much the worst sounding system but certainly an eye opener. Musical Fidelity amp/player ProAc Floorstanders, all £3k or so of it. Next to it NAD £150 amp/player with small NAD standmounts. I've mentioned that one several times before but I was bowled over not so much by how nice and coherent the Nads sounded for little money but how bad the multi thousand quid system compared to it. Same conditions I might add.

 

[Drummerdave]

Spent about 45mins in disbelief listening to a Linn system - LP12 / Lingo power supply and Artikulat 350a active speakers. The speakers cost £23500 and the sound was staggeringly underwhelming - distinctly ordinary in fact. Value for money, yer oul bum!

 

[drummerman]

I can add to my previous posting ...

Cyrus system, everything PSX'd, Pre, Powers, separate dac/transport ... there must have been about ten boxes. Expensive cabling, line conditioner, rack and expensive mission floorstanders. All-in perhaps between £5 - 7k. I listened to that in a dem room I know very well. I would have to seriously question anybodys sanity on spending that amount on that particular system. Soft, vague and utterly boring at any volume!

Then on the other hand, in the very same dem room, Cyrus 8 amp and player with Rega R3's ... I know which one I'd buy!

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="amarocknrollstar"][quote user="darkside82"]my friend had some eltax floorstanders they were punchy but absolutely no emotion[/quote]
What kind were they?
Curious as I've still got my Symphony 6's and absolutely adore them. Rather attached, though I don't use them now.[/quote]

really cannot remember they went loud but, that was it, maybe it was more the ariston amp ;p [and no decent interconnects or speaker cable]

 

[professorhat]

Probably not the worst I've ever heard, but a friend (well, an acquaintance to be fair) recently put his Sony headphones over my head (no idea of the model) saying "Listen to these, they're fantastic man...". Tinny, no sense of depth to the music, like listening to a band playing over the telephone, but in the room next door to the telephone - altogether dreadful I thought.

Of course, I smiled and nodded and said "Yeah, really good mate..."

 

[John Duncan]

Apple headphones

 

[Clare Newsome]

[quote user="JohnDuncan"]Apple headphones

[/quote]

Hey John - knew you wouldn't be able to stay away....

But yes, iPod earphones: totally pony.

 

[Thaiman]

My was JBL 1400 ARRAY!

I have own so many sub £2K speakers that will totally out class the £8000 JBL!

 

[SHAXOS]

I second the apple headphones - UTTER TAT!
And they rupture really easy they and they feel cheap and they are ridiculously overpriced (20 odd pounds!!!) and when they break the customer service is pants making you call some broken english speaking call center in Timbuktu

 

[Anonymous]

tangent cd player that i got from richer sound to go with the home cinema not a good aidea!

 

[a91gti]

I took a short hol at the Queens expense a while back and made a 5.1 system using microwave parts,old loo rolls and a pc disk drive. That made for some poor listening I have to say!

 

[Andrew Everard]

Full moon again?

 

[Anonymous]

worst component has to be the coathanger i used (a very ago long time ago)as an ariel and radio tuner. it was in a word sxxx. those were certainly NOT the days.

 

[Anonymous]

aeriel ( sorry i hate it when that happens)