Quote Originally Posted by gary View Post
Have you ever listened to a piece of hifi and thought that it was ok at best only to hear it later connected to different components and be blown away by how good it could be. I have had this experience with a few different components one of which was the tannoy D700 speakers that I always found a bit bright with the treble and a bit woolly with the bass however listened to with decent (in this case £20k + ) of amplification and source transforms them into a more than capable speaker.

So the question is are we clouding our judgement of components we try based on how they perform connected to our present systems. and is there any components that you have revisited only to change your mind about them.
Kinda. Ive gone through that much hifi crap over the years thinking i'm progressing in the sound department only to go back to old amps & stuff for old times sake i owned over 25 years ago to find iv'e not really got anywhere but gone backwards.