Is buying a “used” subwoofer a bad idea?

@yyzsantabarbara  that's what I am on the market for

@foggyus91 

Well, in my experience, yes.  Virtually every audiophile I have ever known is excessively passionate and joyful over his discoveries and delight in high fidelity music. Guys peddling used equipment are unlikely to be happy self actuated people.

I spent a lot of time in mainland China. One amazing thing you see is that most all of the people over 50 have frowned and are heavily wrinkled and depressed walking looking with their eyes down.  They’ve lived through a lifetime of austerity,  and sadness. The youngsters are happy and gay and are skipping holding hands. They have a positive attitude towards the world because the world they’ve grown up in was getting better, sometimes stereotypes are prevalent and useful.

I have 3 REL subs bought used (2 Q150es and a Q108 MK2) from years ago and all still work perfectly. I also bought a new Classic 99 last year on a whim (not sure what that means) which is an amazing thing, although it destroyed my bargain basement sub cred. It was a "demo" model so there's that.

The idea that only non audiophiles are addicted to cigarettes is the craziest statement l have ever read. Also the guy who thinks that only subs over 20 years  old will go pop is laughable. I would suspect any electrical item over 20 years old (and has habitually been sitting there “on” all the time) will statistically have a shortened life span left.

Thinking about the car owner analogy with audiophiles. If buying an expensive car from a collector, it can not be assumed the previous owners were good drivers and always treated the gear box/engine well.

The idea that only non audiophiles are addicted to cigarettes is the craziest statement l have ever read.

@mylogic Nobody said that. Here is what @ghdprentice actually said:

If you can verify it is an audiophile that is selling it... as opposed to someone that resells garage sale stuff, or buys trade-ins from audio stores. You can probably feel very comfortable. 

You get som grumpy guy that goes to garage sales or fences stolen goods, the jig is up in seconds. Likely you can hear him puffing on a cigarette.

He made a general assertion about the quality of audiophile hobbyist sellers versus general crap pickers / flippers - one that many of us with decades buying & selling agree with - and added some "color" at the end. Personally, I appreciate this color - it's one of the distinguishing factors we have left against AI generated slop.

Crazy you have "logic" in your username and still made that leap