new gear vs used gear

100% used...or, if I used Nrchy's methods, somewhere around 178% used. 100% Audiogon. Nothing from eBay. I used to like eBay back in the late 90's, but now you'd better be wearing protection when you trade there or you risk a nasty case of the Clap! Wait a minute, I did get some tubes on eBay. Come to think of it, that's when that burning sensation started!

Marco

Gunbei...you BROKE a friggen pair of cables?!?! How does one do that? I thought FedexGround were the only ones capable of such things?!

Marco

Speakers speaker cables, and Sacd player new. The rest is used.

Maggie IIb used from dealer A
Forte' 4a NEW from dealer A
Adcom pre NEW from mass market chain B
Sony SCD777ES demo from dealer F
Sony ES9 5disc changer used web friend R
Sony ES7 5disc changer used 'goN
Adcom DA700 used 'goN
Adcom DA600 NEW dealer F
Dual Golden One used web friend K
Denon DP-59L used eBay
Audio Research PH-1 used 'goN
Shure V15xMR used 'goN
Ortofon 20M NEW mass market web dealer J
Beyerdynamic DT990 headphones NEW dealer A
Kimber PBJ cable NEW dealer A
Kimber AG cable used 'goN
Nordost Blue Heaven used 'goN
AQ Midnight speaker cable NEW (out of business)
Monster 5000 power conditioner Demo dealer F

2 new - 12 used pieces.

The only new items I bought from a dealer were 2 specialty cables I needeed. One to connect my Opus 21 cdp to my Ayre preamp. It was a DIN to XLR cable, which never shows up used. (I have not seen one anyway.) Another was a really long interconnect cable, (which I would have bought used, if I was not in a time crunch. It was on sale though!)

All the rest were either purchased on Audiogon, (2 on Ebay), or at a dealer as a used or demo piece. (I consider demo pieces to be used, since, regardless of who used it, it was used, and the price reflected that.)

Thank you Audiogon for allowing me to upgrade my systme for half the price of buying new at a dealer.

PS I have never had a bad experience on Audiogon. (And only one ortwo minor irratating experiences on Ebay for that matter.)