ghasley
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| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @fleschler Your housing and square footage numbers, while likely numerically correct, may be disproprotionately skewing the data. Using your home as an example which sounds to be in excess of 4,000 square feet, you have to admit most young people ... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( Thanks to the op for starting this thread, its a great dialogue that will play itself out over time for all of us to review in the future. Succinctly, the following observations may or may not be correlated to the topic. IF HEA is in decline, some... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( For goods that depreciate very little, I buy new. For items that depreciate rapidly, I buy pre-owned. Simple right? What I think we hear through all of the white noise is that the residual values people once took for granted may no longer apply. S... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @jmcgrogan2 I would concede your points that some dealers use Audiogon today as a fully inflated classifieds listing rather than the clearinghouse for gear we all once experienced here. Much like the starting price in an auto negotiation rather th... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( Guys, I promise I’m not trying to start a debate or an argument, that isn’t me. I merely try to observe measurables. I’m a hobbyist like most here and I’ve done about 20 buy/sell transactions on here this year. All were concluded with fair prices ... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @daveyf Again, to beat the dead horse a little more, I have successfully bought and sold several items this year. Both types of transactions were pretty quick, less than 1 week typically soup to nuts. I've sold some NOS tubes that went quickly fo... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( @daveyf no offense intended but the contention from some that the high end is suffering because there isn’t much for sale on audiogon or better still, because they cant sell their technics or onkyo amp at 75% of retail is not convincing. If you ob... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( As we all recognize, cause, effect and correlation can prove elusive.First, define high end audio. In similar conversations these topics are often left unresolved.My personal opinion is that each variable is poorly defined. Is the economy good or ... | |
| High End is Dead? @michaelgreenaudio I agree with everything you’ve said and the reason is its the music that moves you and your crew. Thats cool. It also sounds like you live around others who share the passion and thats really cool.You also have to admit that the... | |
| High End is Dead? @audiopoint VERY well said. I would add that the next generation of music consumers may have no desire to have multiple racks of gear in a dedicated listening room shut off to the world. A multi box shrine with its sundry rituals to some aspiriati... | |
| High End is Dead? Most of ads on Audiogon is for old and/or off-brand gear for less than $1000. Wilsons and Magicos are a tiny minority of listings and they're all from dealers. In reality no one is buying high end. I went to AXPONA this year, and I didn't see many... | |
| High End is Dead? @madavid0“Anyone who says high end is changing to personal audio is just saying that the high end is dead. Cell phones sound like CRAP. Modern pop music is TRASH. I have a pretty good portable player and it merely sucks LESS.”Personal audio in the... | |
| High End is Dead? @gnaudio thanks for your input. Your three posts in total with all three on this thread give you a great deal of credibility. We have two issues here, first issue is that the OP and his alter ego (you) are trolls and again, I cant for the life of ... | |
| High End is Dead? Thats my point. In 1962 someone who purchased a hifi spent real money, sometimes many months of free cash flow, whereas today you can get a decent system for comparative peanuts. Additionally, gear today is pretty darn reliable. | |
| High End is Dead? Cant quite understand why posting these idiotic topics excites the OP so much. It is however my hope that he someday leaves his parents basement to discover there is sunshine and beauty outside to behold. That there are jobs to be landed and exper... |