Ok lets think about this. Most of us have jobs, that means we get about 3 hours after work each night of free time. So maybe 2 to 3 nights and 2 hours on those nights to listen.
If we have kids then that go's down to about 1 hour per night of free time and maybe 2 night of listening at low levels because of the children.
Now we have the weekends, if no children 5 hours per day and with children 3 hours at most.
No Children, 14 hours a week = 728hrs+ per year.
With children 7 hours a week lol = 364hrs+ per year.
Light use I would say yes.
If an owner is like me. I work very long hours during the summer and winter fixing A/C and heating systems. I have very little time to listen if any. I save up to buy new things during the Spring & Fall so some items I have even though a couple of years old really have little time on them. I have an IDecco I purchased a few years ago to see if I liked computer audio. I used it as a DAC for the one spring season. I have not sold it yet because I may have use for it in another room. Even though it is a few years old I will state low use in the ad.
How often do we really put our systems to their limits and abuse them. I cannot be in my room if I set the system to abuse levels anyhow and would be visited by the police if I did.
All this is out the window if the person is under 25 as all I did back then was blare my system.
What gets me is most of us are happy to buy Demo equipment because of the warranty but that equipment is used the most of all and could have 5 time more use at higher levels than used equipment.
IMHO
If we have kids then that go's down to about 1 hour per night of free time and maybe 2 night of listening at low levels because of the children.
Now we have the weekends, if no children 5 hours per day and with children 3 hours at most.
No Children, 14 hours a week = 728hrs+ per year.
With children 7 hours a week lol = 364hrs+ per year.
Light use I would say yes.
If an owner is like me. I work very long hours during the summer and winter fixing A/C and heating systems. I have very little time to listen if any. I save up to buy new things during the Spring & Fall so some items I have even though a couple of years old really have little time on them. I have an IDecco I purchased a few years ago to see if I liked computer audio. I used it as a DAC for the one spring season. I have not sold it yet because I may have use for it in another room. Even though it is a few years old I will state low use in the ad.
How often do we really put our systems to their limits and abuse them. I cannot be in my room if I set the system to abuse levels anyhow and would be visited by the police if I did.
All this is out the window if the person is under 25 as all I did back then was blare my system.
What gets me is most of us are happy to buy Demo equipment because of the warranty but that equipment is used the most of all and could have 5 time more use at higher levels than used equipment.
IMHO