Words From the Wise

Too funny!! I just dumped $3.5K into JPS speaker cable and my wife knows I got the cable but has not, to date, asked me how much I paid for it. And she outearns me by a ration of almost 5 to 1! God I love that woman.

But I'll still sneak CDs into the house and pray the mail is still in the box when I get home. ;-)

Read Blindjim 11-24-09.

In the words of Adrian Belew... "this is a daaangerous place..."

Coltrane1, the only problem with what you say is that without people like us buying gear new, there is no incentive for manufacturers to design and build new product. There is also the problem that it puts the few remaining small specialty audio shops even more at risk so there are fewer opportunities for us to check out gear before buying. Those same shops supply levels of service that are non-existent when buying used.

Additionally, the expertise of people who have spent their entire careers in the field is invaluable in many ways, not least of which in that it can at least warn you against making foolish purchases.