Bob, what if you kept the speakers for a long time and you blew a driver? The money you'd get back would be zero as you most probably could never get them fixed properly. When purchasing components at or above the 10k mark, I don't want to take that chance. Again, that's me. I had a DAC that was a 9k DAC. I bought it used for less than half that and was lucky to be able to sell it for a bit more, but the owner is getting older and probably only will be around for another two years at most and if so, then there will be no one who can work on his products as the design is not the norm. There may be someone who can. I get that a great tech should be able to figure it out and replace a component, but what if it got wiped out (seen that happen and thank goodness he was around to rebuild it).
Like I said, there are some outstanding components from smaller companies, but it is just a larger crap shoot I guess you could say. That's all.
Like I said, there are some outstanding components from smaller companies, but it is just a larger crap shoot I guess you could say. That's all.