solid state integrateds that will hold their value

Zavato is correct . Buying used you should be able to sell all your gear for what you paid . If you sell before it becomes obsolete , or simply too old . If one were to keep a revolving door every few years and decide to get out of the hobby all this great fun should cost very little. P.S. Don't tell the new equipment buyers this or it will no longer work

NAD 3020! ;^)

Naim Nait holds up very well

(1) As amply highlighted in the prior posts, the inescapable cold hard facts are that a 50% (+ or -) depreciation hit kicks in shortly after you bring that baby home..... Regardless of the brand.

(2) The inescapable depreciation hit can be more. "...hold their value..." is a very subjective and heavily biased conflicting personal value judgement.The intrinsic value to the Seller is invariably more than to Buyer.

cheaply built and thus cheaply priced when new 2 channel audio components sink the fastest ... If you can actually trade-it in or sell it privately at all.

(3) this hobby has these basic tenets ingrained in it. If it bothers you in the extreme, the only way to minimize that raw $$ depreciation hit was already highlighted in the prior posts : buy the kit already used.

sorry I thought it was obvious I was referring to USED gear purchases that hold their value well ... obviously ANYTHING new is going to drop like a stone at least initially. The Rowland and YBA pieces I mentioned are relatively old but both seem to maintain good used pricing.

thanks for the responses though!

Jeff