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Tax Returns: Nothing, a new DAC or... ?

Hello Audiogoners,

Tax season is upon us and perhaps for the second time ever I have filed my taxes on time.  My choices are:

  • Clear out my credit cards
  • A new DAC

I currently have a Mytek Brooklyn (orignal version) and am thiniking of a DAC which is a Roon endpoint, with a $5,000 budget.  I've never heard the Manhattan, or the Bricasti M5 but they are in my price point and feature set.

I really really like the Mytek Brooklyn .... but do you think in this price range I could find something that would make me pull out my card?

Or do I save my money and prepare for the end of days??

erik_squires
erik_squires OP
16,197 posts
 

or maybe a used Manhattan ll will not only sound better, but will hold it's value for a few years as prices for everything increases...

 

This is always a quandry.  I bought the last new-in-box Luxman 507ux in the US for like 50% off retail.  So, sure I could sell it used for more than I paid right now, but then I'd be left with nothing to listen to.  🤣

erik_squires OP
16,197 posts
 

Keep your money....

It is my advice...

but if happiness means expanse for a dac buy it, life is too short...

My best to you...

 

This is probably what I will do, unless I actually hear something very special, which in South Carolina seems unlikely.  

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dekay
5,617 posts
 

Pay off your credit cards in full (why pay interest $'s that most likely have little, if any, benefit when filing taxes)?

Sell the gear you don't need/use before you become too old/lame to do so easily.

DeKay

 

PS:

If you come back to LA help me sell help me sell the gear I no longer need/use.

 

 

 

ghdprentice
7,105 posts
 

Well if it is end of days… a new DAC. I love audio… but no way am I giving the credit card companies a penny. I am retired and had to remodel after a flood… but no more than 4.5% am I going to pay.

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asvjerry
4,696 posts
 

Nuke the cards.

Been without any credit for 13 years, and got our business and affairs in order.

If we couldn't swing something, it went on standby until we could.

Audio went to the bottom of the list, so I got more flexible about what I could do:

The improbable with next to nothing.

More later, if I want to rant @ you....dinners' ready. ;)

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