It's great so many people have shared their thoughts and contributed to this thread.
To go a bit further to clarify my initial post -
There have been times where I know exactly what I want already and then apply a level of patience until something comes up for sale - Case in point, my current main speakers were ones that purchased from a local seller on here about 6-7 years ago.
For me, it's never a matter of a seller or condition of the equipment or even price that evokes the bias, it's the product itself.
In practical terms, I see a lot of prior generation Opportunities BDP's for sale lately and they get a hall pass since I know that Opposition has just come out with the new 203 and announced the 205. But for so many other products that I see come up for sale frequently I apply a level of "intuitive logic' that leads to the bias.
For example, I spend a lot of time in the forums (largely lurking) and I seldom see the products that people rave about in the forums come up for sale and vice versa. I know that this is just bias but I still can't seem to get past it - I'm sure there are lots of great products out there that I could be missing out on simply because seeing them for sale here (and seldom written about favorably in the forums, if at all) as a red flag- right or wrong.
Make sense?
Greg
To go a bit further to clarify my initial post -
There have been times where I know exactly what I want already and then apply a level of patience until something comes up for sale - Case in point, my current main speakers were ones that purchased from a local seller on here about 6-7 years ago.
For me, it's never a matter of a seller or condition of the equipment or even price that evokes the bias, it's the product itself.
In practical terms, I see a lot of prior generation Opportunities BDP's for sale lately and they get a hall pass since I know that Opposition has just come out with the new 203 and announced the 205. But for so many other products that I see come up for sale frequently I apply a level of "intuitive logic' that leads to the bias.
For example, I spend a lot of time in the forums (largely lurking) and I seldom see the products that people rave about in the forums come up for sale and vice versa. I know that this is just bias but I still can't seem to get past it - I'm sure there are lots of great products out there that I could be missing out on simply because seeing them for sale here (and seldom written about favorably in the forums, if at all) as a red flag- right or wrong.
Make sense?
Greg