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I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do?

two issues here, would it be smarter to buy the used speakers not knowing where they’ve been or how hard they’ve been played or maybe there’s something wrong with them. And the other issue is what happens to the value of my speakers immediately after the box comes to my house. And I guess the third issue is, amI insane for buying $50,000 speakers.

It seems like I’ll be losing $20,000 immediately and of course probably a little more since if I ever sell they will need to be reduced further so used price can be 30,000 if a dealer is involved which they probably will be.

This raises a serious concern that very nice speakers are just too expensive.

Fortunately (and luckily) I’m not married so that makes this process a lot easier

emergingsoul
logistics
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I'm more concerned about whether the rest of your system warrants these speakers.  Are they a good match to the rest of your rig?

grislybutter
3,038 posts
 

Unless you have a very large room I think you reach the point of diminishing returns around $25K.  

I would be curious about a blind test result for sure. I would 100% fail to name the more expensive speaker in a small/mid-size room.

vetsc5
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Maybe analogous to considering a used car.  Check over the item in person, do all of the features perform properly, how are the cosmetics , dings, dents, scratches,etc.  Was the item exposed to tobacco smoke.  As more specifically to used speakers remove covers and inspect the drivers, cones, surrounds, etc. Then take it for a test drive (listen).  In the end as we say here often, buy what makes you happy.

facten
2,880 posts
 

I’d say go for closed back headphones given your previous complaints about noisy weed wackers distracting your daily listening.

deep_333
1,411 posts
 

Spend the $30,000 used then use the $20,000 to feed A LOT of malnourished kids...

Hmm, indeed...., if he had a Mofi sourcepoint 888 ($5000) set up on high caliber electronics and some 50k speaker sounded a bit turdy thereafter (i.e., in audit comparison), there is a decent probability that $45,000 could make it to some unfortunate young lads.

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