Used audio market appears to be collapsing

+1 @hbarrel 

If this forum is to be believed many folks are downsizing, presumably selling 15 or 20 used components and buying 3 or 4 brand new ones.

Same deal with all the so-called "retirement" and "endgame" systems. All these folks have exited the used market and are not returning.

One of the reason for the used audio market decrease, a secondary one for sure, the main being the uncertain economic situation on all levels and the old generation dying not re-placed,  one of the reason is new  products offered  at low cost from China...

 Sometimes very bad as the dac i bought this week, hyped by reviewers, and because my master piece the SPS TDA 1543 seems broken, i bought the Douk Q11...

I bought a Douk Q11  reading reviews... How wrong i was...

 The Douk equaliser  T8 pro i own is very good for his peanuts price, but the sound of the Douk Q11 is very bad compared to the SPS, which i repaired and work   thanks God...

 But i was astounded by a few bucks linear power with no name, not even an off/on button  at his peanuts price supply with  4 connections ( 2 USB 5 volt and 123 12 volt) and very well designed and well done anyway...

Incredible improvement for peanuts, very low noise , better timbre, soundstage expansion.......(30 bucks)

My IFI  linear power supply 3 times costlier, with only one connection  is less good   by a margin very audible...

The SPS is so good that i am afraid to buy a Geshelli  which will cost many times my basic low cost system... Which is not logical....

@devinplombier I fall into that category. In the past month I have sold my entire system. And going smaller. To components that I can physically handle. 
Had to have someone come over and put the 85 pound integrated amplifier in the box. And then in my car. 
The 90 pound each speakers were a similar adventure. Needed help packing. What I once could do alone with no issue is simply no longer possible. My new GaN Fet mono blocks both together had a shipping weight of 14 pounds. The new bookshelf speakers weigh in at 28 pounds each. I will have a different sound to enjoy but I will have good sound to enjoy  

@mahgister ...in some pursuits, logic goes quantum and you is on your own... ;)

How dare politics enter this discussion?

Easy....you can only walk around the elephant in the small room just so long before you get urinated and/or shat upon.

And it only gets worse, and you and all will get to clean it up.

45 was bad enough.  One would hope the group mentality would notice, but attention spans have become somewhat ragged over the few decades.....

46 a marked improvement, but having to unravel multiple Gordians', even if only incomplete, would dull any mind....

47.....

Spouse and self (retired, but still 'here' and 'there') play to those who want a custom outdoor recreation item for their kids and those from them....of wood.

Commercial stuff, of course.  We be a playa'.... ;)

We're happy to not only have the phone ring, but contracts in hand....
...waiting to pull the trigger when things settle down....or so it seems...

I just hate it when history repeats itself....    with the same sort of dolts at the wheelhouse....

Snide? Yup.....

"It won't be better, but I'll settle for different...."

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