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Changing to less expensive gear.

Have you ever traded a good but more expensive piece of gear for a cheaper and better sounding piece?

Comments are often made buy people with less expensive gear that what they have is good enough for the price. The implication is that more expensive gear does not provide better sound.

So this question, hopefully approaches this from another angle. I have never sold higher priced gear to get better sounding cheaper gear, but I'm not saying it cannot be done. What has been your experience?
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isellstuff
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Honestly, I DID DOWNGRADE my cassette deck.
I went from a 1985 Pioneer Elite CT-A9X cassette deck,
which in 1988 listed for $900, I paid $535 for it total.
I bought the NEW version CT-W616 consumer deck in
1999. It`s digital, so it REMOVES ALL THE TAPE HISS!
The signal-to-noice ratio with the
digital a-d/d-a converter is 82db, and that`s WITHOUT THE
DOLBY B/C ON. I paid $229 for that. It sounds BETTER,
cause there`s NO tape hiss! I listen to ALOT more
cassettes now.
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