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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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saeyedoc
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"I asked my spoiled spouse and she said “ Vette is a girls car “.... she does have a mean streak"
Hah! Not too many gold chain wearing hairy chest exposing girls that I know. Maybe she means the Boxster lol. 
The new mid engine vette is appealing, but I just can't get over the stereotype. 
I'm more into buying Porsches that are a few years old with a CPO warranty. Picked up my '13 Carrera S that had a $130k sticker for about 75k when it was 4 years old with 25k miles on it. Got my wife a '13 Panamera GTS last year when her older one got totaled, also about a $130k car I got for $56k CPO. 
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lwin
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Talk about hi jacking a thread thread some of the submissions here are completely off topic and ridiculous.
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rocray
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Life is WAY too short not to enjoy the spoils of your hard work. Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one.
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millercarbon
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At 16 with little money the choice was literally a car or a stereo. A car looked to me like a money pit. Especially the kind of used cars a 16 year old can afford. Not that things have changed much. A new car today is reliable but gas, insurance, registration, there's just no end to it. There is however one car you can drive for free: Porsche 911.

Buy one at least 12 years old. Own it at least 20 years. My 79 SC bought for $16k in 91 is now 150k miles later a $40k car. Enough to get all my money back, including all the gas and maintenance and insurance over the entire 30 years of ownership.

Try that with a stereo. Try that with a Corvette. Ha!
saeyedoc
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Not many Porsches will appreciate like yours, maybe the GT or RS cars, but nothing since the 993 has. 
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