How old is too old?


I'm not having any issues at the moment, but I'm thinking I will have to buy 1 more sacd player before I check out. I almost always buy used. So my question how old is too old? I see some interesting things that I would love to have, but many are 10 to 20+ years old. Thoughts?

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I have a 15 year old Luxman D-06 SACD player in a second system that I bought new and it still sounds very good and functions flawlessly.  It is built like a tank.  It only has optical out (not coax), and plugging it into a Chord DAC did not really improve significantly on the sound of the internal DAC.

I have a current production Luxman D-10x SACD player in my main system that I bought new last year and plan to keep for years to come.  It is an overbuilt engineering marvel.

Esoteric, Accuphase and Luxman all make wonderful sounding and robust SACD players that should keep going for many years.

CDs are still more popular than streaming in Japan, hence the continued market for high end cd players.