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New upper trim level Corvette or seven year old used amps?

Recently I have experienced quite a few people I know either passing on or being diagnosed with some type of cancer. And as I have never strived to be the richest guy in the graveyard, I was thinking of buying one of the new Corvettes. I also started to look at my older tube amps, good, but I had had them for about nine years, and the whole tube thing....then I started to think about some SS amps( I know, I’m going to hell). TAD M600, Dagostino M400, and then ventured into Dartzeel territory. Long story shorter: I came upon a pair of used Dartzeel 458’s, totally crazy price, totally crazy good. I have had them about a month and have enjoyed over 100 hours of listening nirvana. Had I bought the vette and drove it 100 hours, I’d have lost my drivers license, and spent thousands on tires, fuel, fines, etc.  
myth buster: it’s all worth it! Expensive power and speaker cables, interconnects, speakers, and Dartzeel 458’s.
Anyone that tells you otherwise is using cost not quality as a determining factor.
Enjoy the music and Life

Matt

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I am 67 and the proud father of three grown daughters who we put through college, paid for it all, three large Italian incredible weddings and we are almost done paying off our HELOC and our first mortgage is done. So, now, it’s my turn, I have been accumulating Porsches (2) and audio equipment that I have held off on so we could get our girls off and running in life. All of my purchases are high quality preowned, Porsche Pano GTS and a 911, and Macintosh integrated and SVS subs and towers. I am a streamer so I save on other stuff. I enjoy it all 365 days of the year and for the first time in a long time I am not covering any major purchases. I am content. It’s a weird feeling, but I like it.    HI SPEED AND HI QUALITY SOUND
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