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

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Showing 1 response by sc0ttc00ter

As Deep_333 said, the type of people that buy $50,000 speakers are not going to flog them. Their musical tastes likely run toward classical or jazz, neither of which are terribly hard on speakers unless deliberately pushed to the point of clipping. I’ve purchased used speakers since the early 2000s, and never had any issues. Ditto for speaker cables, interconnects and power cords, which I always buy used because they’re much less expensive AND already broken in. (I like MITs, which take 300+ hours to break in).

What’s my point? Instead of buying a new pair of $50,000 speakers, look for a used pair of $75,000 speakers (the ones you REALLY want) for $50,000. You may also be able to find a dealer that has some taken some back as a trade-in towards a higher model that will throw in a full factory warranty to sweeten the deal.