It doesn’t matter if you are looking to buy something.

It doesn’t matter if your system could use a little jump-start in this or that area.

It doesn’t matter if you know the names of a lot of gear or hardly any at all.

There is a inherent THRILL of plodding around, clicking through things, and finding really good deals on used audio equipment …. and wondering … “What if I got THAT? Maybe I SHOULD get that? It would be SO awesome to get to play with that.”

The thrill of letting ourselves be tempted. Kind of like the old Audiogon ‘New Today’ page.

I remember going there several times per day. Over the years, after we became members of the ‘industry’, this turned from…

‘Wow, that is EXPENSIVE, but what a deal! Maybe we should get it… ”

…to…

“Wow! That awesome old gear is hardly ever on the market – and look at the price! That guy is nuts to sell it for that. Maybe we should get it so people could hear it here… and get more people wanting to visit the store [and, winking at each other, we get to play with it to our hearts content :-)]”

See?

The T-E-M-P-T-A-T-I-O-N! [in my head this is said with the same fear and awe and fascination as the phrase: ‘the horror’ from Apocalypse Now]

It [and the sometime joy of falling for the temptation] is so much apart of our hobby. It is gear lust cross pollinated with hi-fi system design.

And a wonderful way to while away the hours for people who get bored. 🙂

You too can experience the Thrill of The Hunt.

We revived our old Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy Used and Demo Audio page.

This page links to several dozen ‘specials’ pages put up by dealers all over the U.S and Canada.

You can hunt by clicking through them, seeing 1000s of demo and used gear being sold by reputable dealers [all of whom, at least, we either know personally or have had an active specials page for over 10 years].

Of course, our very own specials page of Used and Demo Audio equipment is also on the list [more about our experiences with our specials page, and how did we manage to fit all that gear in the house anyway? … in the next post].