Logic dictates that the current owners are significantly biased in their responses to be really supportive in order to minimise their losses on what has transpired.no one likes losing money it goes to their core. So the only true measure of how many believes Herve here is those who place new orders.
I've never bought hifi on the basis of potential resale value. I buy things on the basis that the money is spent and I will never get a penny back. So if I spend $10,000 on an amplifier, I don't think - well, I might be able to sell it for 7k, so it's costing me 3k. I simply ask myself, am I OK with spending 10K on this amplifier?
So I don't agree with HD on this, he talks about hifi as an investment, to me it's a luxury, a hobby - discretionary expenditure that I never expect anything back except pleasure.
if you have a DZ amplifier and it gives great listening pleasure, even if resale value plummets, why lose sleep over that if you're not going to sell it?
I was thinking of
@orenatt in Israel and his potential purchase of a pair of DZ amplifiers. My wife is in Tel Aviv at the moment (most of my family live there, many born there), she was in a nice restaurant today with her parents, it's her mother's 81st birthday today. The place was buzzing, the attitude seems to be live for today because tomorrow may never come, which quite literally is the case. I remember that attitude from the 1970s, I was in Israel in the YK War, and my son has been through it this time, he's been living there 4 years. My grandmother told me it was much the same in London in 1940 in the Blitz. It's an attitude very different worrying about pensions and investments for when you're 85.
There seems to me to be too much concern with money. If you spent $100,000 on an amplifier and the financial implications cause you to worry or lose sleep, perhaps you shouldn't have bought it.
I remember a client who was a wedding planner. In that business the first thing the parents ask is "how much will it cost?". It is purgatory from there on. He just oozed charm, sold the product not the price, and had a reputation for bedding the mother of the bride. Remarkably frequently. That completely distracted from financial considerations. He was a very successful wedding planner.
