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


two issues here, would it be smarter to buy the used speakers not knowing where they’ve been or how hard they’ve been played or maybe there’s something wrong with them. And the other issue is what happens to the value of my speakers immediately after the box comes to my house. And I guess the third issue is, amI insane for buying $50,000 speakers.

It seems like I’ll be losing $20,000 immediately and of course probably a little more since if I ever sell they will need to be reduced further so used price can be 30,000 if a dealer is involved which they probably will be.

This raises a serious concern that very nice speakers are just too expensive.

Fortunately (and luckily) I’m not married so that makes this process a lot easier

emergingsoul

@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? 

@thecarpathian

The threads on cables imho have no basis in reality. Yet there are hundreds of them that go on and on.

There have been some humorous responses here at the very least, plus the melodrama of my being called disgusting, an accusation that I make zero effort to refute, and which I have been known to embellish upon from time to time, depending on my perception of the algorithmic structure of the narrative. So at least there’s entertainment. 

@unreceivedogma

Personally, I think all the hype and excess funds held by older souls, and highly technically expert people who frequent this forum, as well as all the audio dealers on this forum, are what drives this market even higher. The point I was trying to make was the difficulty of purchasing extremely expensive equipment which should be priced a lot less. The only reason why it’s so high is to support lavish marketing and profit motivated executives to exploit all those excess dollars available to support all this.

Truth is, very few people understand all that goes on with a speaker. It’s complicated. Those companies selling these products take advantage of this and when you look into things really closely the people selling the products have no clue what they’re selling. Why should they? Those people with money to spend on the product are not really pushing for a better understanding of what they’re buying Beyond just a few quick questions and maybe a listening session that’s helpful and breaking out a credit card and taking delivery and being treated rather well while they do it. There are really nice people selling audio products.

And for those people with excess funds to spend, they feel better spending more money even though same experience could be achieved for considerably less but for some reason spending more money gives people comfort. if Something seems really good and it’s not being sold for very much i wonder why. And I even say to people selling the product you should charge more and people would feel more comfortable about what they’re buying, including me. And I am rather frugal.