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Five Worst Pieces of Audio Gear You've Heard (Members Only)

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Marvey:
Want to keep things fun and very irreverent a la Changstar. Members only. List five worst pieces of audio gear you guys have ever heard. I was made to do this by some dude who talked a lot about shlongs in the world of hi-fi.

Think of this as an update to the old walkin' the plank list. The flip side of the leaderboard. Shoot! Some explanation of why such an item makes your list is required.

BTW I don't get upset or take it personally when people don't like stuff I like. For example, I like the MDR-Z7. But lots of people don't. It doesn't rub me the wrong way at all. In fact, I understand why they don't like it.  Thought I should say that because people can get all sensitive and stuff.

Priidik:
In absolute scale it would be boring list of tv-s and cheap earpuds.

Instead i dug in my memory for some names that might ring a bell here or there:
1. older Skullcandy earbuds sucked hard for such hype, the whole sound signature was bloated
2. Technics RP DH1200, these were pretty bad sounding for the asking price, even for a DJ can. Highs rolled off from ~4k
3. Senn HD201 were pretty poor, hollow sounding, lacking coherency, but not too bad for the money
4. RME soundcards are way overhyped in terms of sq, outperformed by a ODAC, probably
5. Logitech computer soundsets in general, a decent pair of small active nearfields can be had for the money

Marvey:
Yeah - updated the post to be more clear. I figure I'll go second or third to make things more interesting.

M3NTAL:
HD-485 and MDR-700DJ just for their SQ / Build Quality / Comfort and Price.

GoldfishX:
Violectric V200 - Bought this amp to help deal with the HD800's brightness. I found it dull, smeared and closed in. Tried to live with it for 3 months, then sold it. Definitely not a Violectric fan after that.

Grado GS1000 - Heard this at a local Hifi Shop. I don't remember the exact problem with it, but I was done with these in 15 minutes. It was being played through a hi end McIntosh Preamp (forgot the DAC) and probably $10,000 worth of cables, so it didn't have any excuse for sounding as poor as it did.

CENtrance Dacmini - crappy DAC + weaksauce headphone amp = why bother? This was a loaner from Cable Company, so I'm not too mad about it.

Burson Conductor - It was doing good (not great) until the driver installed spyware on my computer. That kind of puts a negative bias on how Burson products sound after that. This was another Cable Company loan.

So I feel good I haven't gotten burned on that many actual purchases so far. I'm having trouble coming up with a 5th, so I'll leave it there.

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