A warranty to an original purchaser is a cost of marketing a new unit. A manufacturer usually doesnt need to offer a warranty to the original buyer's buyer to get the original buyer to buy the unit in the first place. Some, like Bryston, use the long warranty as a marketing ploy to impart the idea of robust quality, but in reality, amps that survive their first few months last a long time.
Why the limit on warranty to subsequent purchasor?
I have been looking into picking up a used high end CD player but I am finding that warranties are not transferrable from the original owner? I don't understand this. Maybe on a $500 unit, but a $5000 unit with no transferrable warranty, it makes me want to run from that manufacturer.