How many people here generally buy used?

Purchased my Acoustat 1+1s new in the 80’s. CJ Premier 6, Linn LP12 and CAL Aria were gifted to me by pop. (RIP) All are still in my current system and sound lovely. (I just serviced the turntable.) The only other "new" purchases have been a Denon cartridge, Node2i and Jolida DA. Everything else, RH Labs sub, ARC SP11 MkII, ARC VS110 were purchased from prior owners. I’ve had very good luck with those purchases, I must say. I am replacing my current cables (Monster reference and PowerLineII) with new Marrow Audio. Oh, almost forgot the Beyerdynamic headphones and A20 headphone amp which are new. While the system is mostly vintage, I’m very, very pleased with its performance.

I mostly buy used or demo gear. I could never afford new Audio Research prices, but picked up a used Ref 5 SE and Ref 75 SE last year along with a demo VPI Classic 3 turntable.

Almost all used. One new piece, Onkyo CD player, gave me the most grief. Numerous integrateds, speakers, been pleased overall with music and savings.

Used amps which I then recap and mod myself.  Main amp is an old Altec-Lansing which had a NE5532 as the front end.  Swapped that out for for one of the newest audio op amps.  Total investment - $200 for 200 watts per channel.  This thing has a power transformer the size of cantaloupe.  (I don't recommend such a project for anyone without considerable tech experience)

Used turntable - Music Hall for $250.

Used speakers - Klipsch Forte for $500.  I recapped the crossovers.  

Cables - DIY.  Kimber Kable copies.  (learned how to braid)

until my current complete PS Audio gear... _everything_ ive ever bought was used. great values can be had.