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Best idea yet, send $32,000 to children that are dying of starvation which will probably save about 7,500 starving children and spend $8,000 on some awesome used speakers here on agon.

Your conscience will give you more joy for doing a good thing for humanity then what any $160,000 speakers could give anyone. Just a thought!!

Better yet, do the smart thing...

Take whatever income tax writeoff amount you have available and give it to those charities. Then use the speakers as a business expense for your conference room (HT *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*) where you show clients and prospective clients powerslides/presentations of things you are working on. This way you can write that off as well.

Then use the money you didn't waste by just foolishly giving it away without thinking about how to use it properly, and reinvest it in order to make compound interest on the investment and in order to make future investment income. This way you can do the same thing all over again next year when your invested money makes more money for you!

If you just give your money away without being creative, you won't have anything left to give to charity very soon. If you use an intelligent investment strategy, you can keep giving to charity for the rest of your life. Thus you can give a lot more money to charity over the long term, rather than making yourself a charity case in the process by foolishly giving it away without any foresight.

See, you can own the some of the best speakers in the world, such as my Wilsons, and still help save the third world, all at the same time! Go figure!

Just a thought. I sold a pair of Acapella Campanile Highs to an audiophile who used a Levinson 33H to drive them and the sound was absolutely spectacular. The Campaniles replaced a set of Grand Utopias which in comparison sounded broken. The Campaniles appear ocassionally on the used market at an attractive price. Suggest that you go to the Aaudio Imports web site for more information on the Acapella speakers. Speakers in this price range are not the easiest thing to get rid of so I suggest that you carefully think through your options before jumping into a purchase yoy may later regret.

Kkalman, thats intersting but I am stumped on writing the speakers off. Most of us don't have a business and or clients to write expensive 40,000 dollar speakers. How do you explain that one in an audit when you explain your confrence room needed $40,000 for a pair of speakers when we all know $400 speakers at best buy are more then adequate.

I like your idea of making your money work for you so you can do more in the future. I would rather like the guy who is generous giving large amounts to charities making a lot in the market then the selfish guy who hoards 10's of thousands of dollars on a cable but can't give a penny to those dying of starvation.

"How do you explain that one in an audit when you explain your confrence room needed $40,000 for a pair of speakers when we all know $400 speakers at best buy are more then adequate."

You could never explain it in an audit.Period. End of story.Jeffrey you should be ashamed for posting such a dishonest means to an end