Would you spend you money on modest brand new car or rather buy top notch vintage one?

I did.  Read the elaborate explanation below the title. Can you?

Well, try to insure 1M audio equipment.

The cars are not the subject of discussion.  The title of the discussion was chosen  for different reasons. The subject here is not to compare cars vs. audio equipment, but rather buying new gears  vs. used.  

@roxy54 Many vintage audio gears fetch more money if they are in the original condition. No, I don’t believe that the reason being is - collector of vintage. Personally, I don’t know even one collector unless he/she is an audiophile first and collector second. In addition, most of the updated used gears are not done right. The repair shop choice of replacement caps and wiring, in most cases degraded the original sound of the equipment. I rather buy for less ( or even more $$$) and do the upgrade myself. What is the point of buying something that works well but doesn’t sound as good as the original?  It's not that easy to get the right sound when changing caps, resistors, wire etc.

@yoder Every thing we learn in live comes from long and accumulated knowledge. When it comes to audio, where do you think, todays best learn from? That’s why, as an audiophile, it might be important to learn from older, well engineered electronics as well. Now days, they are a lot of classic vintage gears priced as low as 20 cent on the dollar and this is before the inflation factor. When it comes to dac’s, I currently have modern Lampizator DAC/DSD but I still keep and like my Wadia from 1992 - still stock and working great. So, the moral of the story is that if you have knowledge and shop carefully one can find a gem among the see of just used gears. History is important and can be very useful as well.

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@wart That is fine if you don’t get it. You don’t have to respond back. But at least you should get the message that we are NOT TALKING ABOUT CARS as you can tell from the subtitle. The title was constructed as a catchy phrase in order to get your attention. When it comes to WE, Studer, Nagra EMT etc., they are not affordable used equipment option for most of you and we should ignore them for the purpose of this discussion. So, you see, it is not that difficult to get it unless you want to be on top of things and control the situation. Relax and smell the roses - can you get that?

@clearthinker in literature,  it is called - creative writing.

I'm not asking for help.  My intent is to spark an open minded discussion on the subject which in terms may lead to different points of view ( as we can see here) and better understand  our rational motive when it comes to purchase new vs. used.