Golden Earring wrote: > Hi Antoniop! > > Most of my gear is s/hand: realistically, as soon as you take a new bit > of kit out of the box, you've flushed half of the purchase price down > the toilet (with a few significant exceptions - the B&W 805S speakers I > was forced to buy new, simply because there weren't any s/hand items > available at the time, are still selling at 80% of the price I paid - > after INSISTING on a 15% discount. The salesman, who hadn't got any to > demo to me asked me slightly desperately if I wouldn't like to hear them > first - so I told him that my hearing was shot but that my significant > other liked the shape of them. He was then so far off his script that he > caved in & gave me the 15% off, lol... ). > > And the mean time between failures for solid-state devices is around > 100,000 hours! > > You can get an "as-new" Touch, complete with all original packaging, for > around £200 on eBay if you decide to go for that... > > Dave :cool: > > P.S. The infamous Ken Kessler himself began by deriding the "Endorphin" > name, then listened to the beast & declared it his new reference player > - it really *-does-* sound even better than its "sexiest CD player in > the universe" looks ;)
Hi Dave, you're excellent ! Maybe you'll find me a bit snobbish, but I don't like much used thinks. My father used to almost never buy something new, always used things: (very) used cars, used clothes, used furniture... Not only a question of money. I like to buy everything new, but I keep it until it dies ! I know, I'm loosing opportunities to get very good things for a very good price ! LMS 7.9.0 on Linux Mageia 5 and RPI 3 1 SB3, 2 radio, 1 touch Plugins : Trackstat, Smartmix, MusicIP, ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antoniop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946
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