I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do?

@limomangus 

I don’t take chances:

- notwithstanding my completely, utterly disgusting political orientation, I’m conservative about a lot of things.  In particular, spending my money. I don’t want to loose it. 
- I always kick the tires. 
- I will buy something that’s a wreck on purpose, IF I know I can have it fixed, or in some cases fix it myself. The purchase price will be greatly discounted, and once I add to the repair cost, I will be ahead, sometimes way ahead. For example, I bought two backup Altec 604s that were damaged. Plus repair, the cost was $650 each. In good condition, they are going for $2,400 a pair. 

You should be able to get a nice discount on $50K speakers. at least 20-25% which makes the decision easier. If I were going to spend that kind of dough (which I wouldn't) I would buy from a dealer for peace of mind. If I couldn't get any discount, I would find a different speaker. You can very often get close outs of 40% or even more because a company changed the speaker and has to unload the old ones, or more likely get the 25% off a demo pair from a dealer that will give you full warranty and support.

@limomangus

as for the

- preamp and tuner (no receivers), I bought them used from a dealer in Manhattan who sells lots of used gear and stands behind everything he sells

- amps, bought from the same dealer. They were a little unstable in the early years, in spite of taking them to an audio engineer who has won 5 Grammys. Then I came across George Kay and Jon Specter. Jon has recently rebuilt them from top to bottom, converted them to triode, replaced/upgraded all the caps, new NOS GE 6LF6s, and re-etched the corroded sections of the circuit board. He’s been working on Futtermans for decades, he started out by working with George Kaye who he still consults with. I have complete 100% confidence in Jon and George.

Annnnd you guys are still posting like this thread has any base in reality...

@emergingsoul 

You sent me a message through some other channel. I have no idea how to respond there. Why don’t you just post it here?