What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0(

Don't get me started on MQA enabled mobile phones which Bluetooth to Hi Def earphones. There are more than enough millionares/billionaires/moguls/movie/TV stars in this world to make all Hi End manufacturers millionares themselves. Some of us aren't that privileged!

let's face it, with time the great sounding old designs become progressively more obsolescent, and to keep paying higher and higher prices for them becomes foolish.  they must have a distinct investor grade quality to keep climbing in value, i.e. they must retain or gain in value, to be worth buying.  when the prices start to drop, that's the signal it's not an investment, rather it's just a trend that has been played out, or it's been surpassed by newer developments in technology and sound.  I'm seeing this same phenom in everything vintage or antique.  what drives the prices up to the sky is big money getting interested in buying it, and when that wanes, the prices can only go down.  all these cheap knock-off Chinese-made tube amps don't help any. hopefully we can get nasty tariffs on them all, and then you'll see vintage tube gear pick up again.

@grannyring 

I suspect you are correct about the declining market ( but only for current technology type high end products)

Maybe tekton is disruptive and hopefully there will be technologies and products that reinvigorate the market.

Following up on your comments about Tekton and/or others pricing new products reasonably....from a buyer perspective, knowing that 50% depreciation is likely, most buyers would rather suffer a $1500 loss over a $15k loss... obviously.

For now, I suspect that most buyers can only afford to buy the expensive stuff if they can get it as a preowned at a pretty good discount. 

IMO used equipment prices are too high. Generally you're not going to get 80% for a used item although I'll admit there may be exceptions.