Wow, everything posted for sale is ''light use''??

If you ask the seller the date of manufacture you can find out if he's full of s***. When the seller avoids the question in his response... maybe he's not the original owner as stated or the gear is much older then claimed. Sometimes the seller doesn't even respond. I don't think this question is to intrusive?

Revisiting this thread, lot's of very entertaining posts!

Ok lets think about this. Most of us have jobs, that means we get about 3 hours after work each night of free time. So maybe 2 to 3 nights and 2 hours on those nights to listen.

If we have kids then that go's down to about 1 hour per night of free time and maybe 2 night of listening at low levels because of the children.

Now we have the weekends, if no children 5 hours per day and with children 3 hours at most.

No Children, 14 hours a week = 728hrs+ per year.
With children 7 hours a week lol = 364hrs+ per year.

Light use I would say yes.

If an owner is like me. I work very long hours during the summer and winter fixing A/C and heating systems. I have very little time to listen if any. I save up to buy new things during the Spring & Fall so some items I have even though a couple of years old really have little time on them. I have an IDecco I purchased a few years ago to see if I liked computer audio. I used it as a DAC for the one spring season. I have not sold it yet because I may have use for it in another room. Even though it is a few years old I will state low use in the ad.

How often do we really put our systems to their limits and abuse them. I cannot be in my room if I set the system to abuse levels anyhow and would be visited by the police if I did.

All this is out the window if the person is under 25 as all I did back then was blare my system.

What gets me is most of us are happy to buy Demo equipment because of the warranty but that equipment is used the most of all and could have 5 time more use at higher levels than used equipment.

IMHO

"It seems to be a law of the universe that all tubes have 200 hours on them"

Yes this is really funny but to me what's funnier still is "NOS" tubes with "low hours" being advertised as NOS. There should be two descriptions for the old tubes from days yonder that are coveted by audiophiles, UsedOS and NewOS. If it's used how can it be new? With the prices of some of these desirable tubes rising to ridiculous levels it will eventually get onto the radar of the professional scammers that are always looking for an angle to make a fast buck or has it already?:) Cavaet Emptor, especially with "lightly" used NOS tubes.

This means they used it with a light on.