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New speakers or new car?

ever notice it’s easier to spend $50,000 on speakers than $50,000 on a new car? Why is that. Is it because my living room is not big enough for a car?

Seriously, I need a new car. So maybe I need to come to terms with that and somehow find a way for it to be easier to spend a lot of money on a new car. Maybe it’s because a speaker doesn’t come with annual recurring costs like insurance and all the gasoline or electricity you gotta put into it.

Or maybe I just do both.

emergingsoul
trivema's avatar
trivema
177 posts
 

What kind of car? What kind of speakers? 

coppy777's avatar
coppy777
222 posts
 

A seldom Used car, Gently used speakers.  

And look at the fun you will have in the quest for both.

Doesn't get any better than that.

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bassbuyer
880 posts
 

I did both.  In fact I ended up buying 2 cars.  The cars cost a lot more than my speakers.  The best of both worlds is the 19 speaker Lexicon system in my Genesis GV70.  

ohlala
1,273 posts
 

In the coffee line at SWAF I was talking to a friendly female attendee who debating the idea of choosing between a beach house a pair of $500,000 speakers (probably the big YGs on demo there). I said, ’beach house!", but she pushed back thinking speakers would be better overall. I inferred that is partly because the speakers are less maintenance. What one has to do to get their money’s worth from those speakers is a lot, though.

 

 

 

pennpencil
143 posts
 

Cars and speakers are both transportation. You’ve got to have one but we often yearn for the other. There’s a practical answer but practicality alone is often boring. The best answer is to buy the best you can afford in both and take a lot of joy rides as far as you can drive. 

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