Sometimes buying hardware is a shot in the dark. They may not let you test it in the shop, you might have to order it online etc. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Let's talk about those times when you lost.
Here are my failed choices:
I used to have the SHP2500 headphones before I bought these. They were really good for their price. One day, the cable broke so I had to get new ones and I've decided that since I had some money put away I should buy more expensive, better ones.
I live in a small town. There really isn't too much of a choice when it comes to... anything, actually. And what is available in stores here is almost always priced higher than the same stuff online. So I decided to rely on reviews and buy the headphones online. The SHP2700 was an evolution of the model I had so I assumed they will be just like that only better.
So they cost me over twice as much as I paid for the 2500 and when I unboxed them and put them on I was bitterly disappointed. They are more comfy than the previous model, yes, but the audio quality is absolute dudu. The middle frequencies sound like they are "squeezed". It's hard to explain but the point is the sound is distorted rendering the headphones useless for anything other than casual music listening when on the train. What a waste of money.
I can't even remember the model name since I no longer have it. I bought this thing some years ago because I really wanted a DVD player and I was on a tight budget. I was a kid and all I had was my birthday money. The Korr was the cheapest player available.
It was a disaster all around. Image quality was poor compared to some other DVD players, often the thing would stutter even if there was a tiny scratch on the disc (I mostly watched rented DVDs so naturally they were pretty badly scratched), and some discs wouldn't work at all with this thing for some reason.
There were very few options you could adjust, which is annoying for someone like me who likes to have control over many aspects of my movie-watching experience. And though the player was Divx compatible, you wouldn't want to play movies from CDs because the drive made pretty a loud buzzing noise. It wouldn't happen with DVDs, though.
I ended up mostly playing movies from my pendrive as that was the only way to avoid the noise and stutter issues.
And it broke very quickly too although I didn't use it much. One day the thing just refused to play anything from any media. I threw it away with sore heart for wasting my birthday money on that thing.
Here are my failed choices:
Philips SHP2700
I used to have the SHP2500 headphones before I bought these. They were really good for their price. One day, the cable broke so I had to get new ones and I've decided that since I had some money put away I should buy more expensive, better ones.
I live in a small town. There really isn't too much of a choice when it comes to... anything, actually. And what is available in stores here is almost always priced higher than the same stuff online. So I decided to rely on reviews and buy the headphones online. The SHP2700 was an evolution of the model I had so I assumed they will be just like that only better.
So they cost me over twice as much as I paid for the 2500 and when I unboxed them and put them on I was bitterly disappointed. They are more comfy than the previous model, yes, but the audio quality is absolute dudu. The middle frequencies sound like they are "squeezed". It's hard to explain but the point is the sound is distorted rendering the headphones useless for anything other than casual music listening when on the train. What a waste of money.
Korr DVD/Divx player
I can't even remember the model name since I no longer have it. I bought this thing some years ago because I really wanted a DVD player and I was on a tight budget. I was a kid and all I had was my birthday money. The Korr was the cheapest player available.
It was a disaster all around. Image quality was poor compared to some other DVD players, often the thing would stutter even if there was a tiny scratch on the disc (I mostly watched rented DVDs so naturally they were pretty badly scratched), and some discs wouldn't work at all with this thing for some reason.
There were very few options you could adjust, which is annoying for someone like me who likes to have control over many aspects of my movie-watching experience. And though the player was Divx compatible, you wouldn't want to play movies from CDs because the drive made pretty a loud buzzing noise. It wouldn't happen with DVDs, though.
I ended up mostly playing movies from my pendrive as that was the only way to avoid the noise and stutter issues.
And it broke very quickly too although I didn't use it much. One day the thing just refused to play anything from any media. I threw it away with sore heart for wasting my birthday money on that thing.
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Last edited by Yasashii; 08-22-14 at 03:53 AM.