Why so many Hegel's for sale?

@nonoise 

got it now  :)   
and agree 100%

@simao 

h160 nice unit... as is the rost (which i still have and love on a second system driving harbeths)
h90-160-360 dac sections lagging now, which is why hegel is updating the models
but amp sections still among the very best sounding - just superb

@nonoise 

horse - jockey analogy

point being?

sorry i am thick

miller - your comment made me consider the parallels between high end hifi and economics

more parallels exist than what one might think:
-- there are unyielding data folks, against theorists and pragmatists
-- so much data trying to explain stuff, yet real events and changes occur largely due to psychology driving individual perceptions, and thus behaviors
-- at the end of the day, economics is an art form more than a science, qualitative dominates quantitative

while very very good pieces do show up more rarely on the used market than less good ones, to say they NEVER show up is overly simplistic and inaccurate

words like never, perfect, always, best are too absolute and extreme to describe most reality, unless you are dealing with immutable laws of physics or matter - often not applicable in the hifi world

audiophiles with money randomly trade away really great stuff often... always chasing something they THINK is better... a good portion of the time they are wrong... same with the luxury/enthusiast car market... some cars lovers just sequentially change cars from pure boredom, then they post on car forums how much they regret selling ’x’ car, wish they had it back

also, people get laid off, they get old, they get sick, they die... and their treasured pieces get sold off

it is random

but i would say the h590 is in less demand since the h390 hit... h390 does 99% of what the 590 does for most customers AND the h390 has proper and full MQA implementation on all digital inputs, whereas they have not updated the h590 to the same capability

the 390 (and 190) are the sweet spots in the line