Antoniop wrote: > Hi Dave! > That's very interesting, thank you for sharing your experience ! > I'll consider differently buying second hand or not!
Hi Antoniop! I just thought it was helpful to set out the arguments on both sides. Some of my gear was new (or ex-demo, which amounts to the same thing really, such gear has usually had very little use & its provenance is known... ). This is usually either because I want something that hasn't been around long enough to be easily obtained s/hand or simply because it's so good that people don't want to sell it after they've bought it, lol. My B&W 805S speakers fell into that category. However I did approach a B&W dealer who I knew didn't have any in stock & negotiated a 15% discount on the basis that I would pay cash, he would order them in & I would collect the unopened boxes as soon as they arrived. As a consequence a pair sold on eBay a couple of weeks ago for a full 80% of the price I paid 8 years ago - & they were of a similar age to mine because only about 6 months after I bought mine B&W fitted the diamond tweeter used in their more expensive floor-standers, & curiously the list price went up from £1500 (pretty good value) to around £4000 (not so good, especially since the initial 805D's were not very good - they're on to the 805D S3 by now... ). My Mytek Brooklyn DAC (ex-demo, acquired fro dealer in Scotland via an actual eBay auction in which I was fortunate because the other 2 bidders dropped out way below the price which I would have paid) is a recent model with unique features - it incorporates a fully balanced Class A headphone amplifier delivering up to 6W/channel (which I have used 7 can confirm is good) & also an MC/MM analogue phono pre-amplifier (which I haven't tried yet, but which should enable me to resurrect the Linn LP12/Ittok/Koetsu Rosewood Signature set-up that has followed me around since the 1980's, lol... ), as well as a very flexible DAC itself which has a word clock out: this latter feature means that I can slave my Transporter to the Mytek's clock (this is done by changing settings in the Logitech Media Server software) & effectively eliminate the digital jitter that tends to arise when a 2-box configuration is used, whether it be a CD Transport/DAC combo or a Music Streamer/DAC combo. Exactly the same engineering considerations are at play in either case. I have posted extensively about this on other threads in this forum, but would be happy to provide the links to the discussion of the issue by Sean Adams himself & also to the technical engineering paper upon which he justified his position... But as regards new vs s/hand, it's entirely up to you which route you choose - it's your money, after all! Dave :cool: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946
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