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New upper trim level Corvette or seven year old used amps?

Recently I have experienced quite a few people I know either passing on or being diagnosed with some type of cancer. And as I have never strived to be the richest guy in the graveyard, I was thinking of buying one of the new Corvettes. I also started to look at my older tube amps, good, but I had had them for about nine years, and the whole tube thing....then I started to think about some SS amps( I know, I’m going to hell). TAD M600, Dagostino M400, and then ventured into Dartzeel territory. Long story shorter: I came upon a pair of used Dartzeel 458’s, totally crazy price, totally crazy good. I have had them about a month and have enjoyed over 100 hours of listening nirvana. Had I bought the vette and drove it 100 hours, I’d have lost my drivers license, and spent thousands on tires, fuel, fines, etc.  
myth buster: it’s all worth it! Expensive power and speaker cables, interconnects, speakers, and Dartzeel 458’s.
Anyone that tells you otherwise is using cost not quality as a determining factor.
Enjoy the music and Life

Matt

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rlb61
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I'd have done the same thing ... keep the amps, toss the 'vette.
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noromance
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Hopefully your used Dartzeel at a crazy price were not the very well made copies out there.
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stereo5
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When I retired in 2017, I had my eye on a used Vette that had extremely low miles.  I wanted it so bad but remembered the last sports car I owned and how many tickets I got while driving it.  It was also a magnet for the Police.  My insurance went up sky high at the time.

My wife and I had a deal that when I retired I could get the sports car I wanted up to 40-45K.  I came to my senses and  bought 6  gently used McIntosh components for both systems, plus new racks for both systems as well.  I saved a tiny bit of money, but I can use the systems every day which I do where the Vette would have only been driven in the Summer months.  Add the price of maintenance and insurance and I know I made the right decision. 

My dad always told me, no matter how bad you want something, walk away and think about it for a day or two.  He was so right in this case. 
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noromance
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I was going to buy a MLC Dodge Challenger SRT in 2017 for $50k. Test drove and picked the dark grey one on the lot. Then I remembered my property taxes for the next twenty years will run to $200,000. And they say we are free. Bullsh1t.

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stereo5
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@noromance ….. for 20 years at todays tax rate, my property taxes on the house will run about 100K.  You must live in the San Francisco Bay area!!!
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