Car Audio Depreciation

[zx12 10+ year member]

Is there much depreciation in car audo equipment? Say if I bought something 10 months from now.Would it be that much cheaper?

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

depends on the quality of the equipment and if you paid msrp or internet price..

 

[Safe-N-Sound215 10+ year member]

Imo it's just like everything else some stuff will depreciate, most will stay around the same, and the equipment that is hard to find will most likely stay the same or go up a little bit

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

It's worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it...

McIntosh amps still sell routinely over $1k 25 years after they were made, and often times in horrible cosmetic condition, because there's a demand there. Not that they're that much better, but because the following is there to drive prices up.

Speakers tend to take the greatest hits in value, because people often times don't set them up properly and shorten their lifespans, or they're subjected to all sorts of abuse from weather, screwdrivers, shifting cargo, competition, etc...