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<blockquote data-quote="helotaxi" data-source="post: 2792555" data-attributes="member: 550915">You forgot the rest of the quote &quot;...I want to be a wise man with smart friends.&quot;&nbsp; The way I heard it of course related to flying and &quot;lucky&quot; was in the place of &quot;smart.&quot;The wise man who wants to maximize his dollar will also tell you buy good once and have forever, buy cheap over and again and forever not have.I paid top dollar for my amps in &#039;96.&nbsp; I still have every one of them in pristine condition to this day.&nbsp; I make really good money and my wife should make more tham me this year.&nbsp; I still shop around a lot before buying something and even then I sweat the pennies.&nbsp; I was in college when I paid close to $2500 for the 3 amps that I still have.&nbsp; That was a huge chunk of money to me back then, still is to me now in fact even though I make close to 4x what I did then plus my wife&#039;s income.&nbsp; Those amps were a long term investment and over their life so far have cost me about $250 a year.There are a lot of people on this board who call JL overpriced.&nbsp; These same people change their equipment as often as their underwear because they&#039;re never happy with what they have.&nbsp; They keep jumping to the flavor of the month and sell the used stuff at a loss.&nbsp; Over the course of a year or two they have thrown away enough money to have bought a full set of &quot;overpriced&quot; amps that would have served them well for many years.&nbsp; Ahh, the foolishness of youth...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="helotaxi, post: 2792555, member: 550915"] You forgot the rest of the quote "...I want to be a wise man with smart friends." The way I heard it of course related to flying and "lucky" was in the place of "smart." The wise man who wants to maximize his dollar will also tell you buy good once and have forever, buy cheap over and again and forever not have. I paid top dollar for my amps in '96. I still have every one of them in pristine condition to this day. I make really good money and my wife should make more tham me this year. I still shop around a lot before buying something and even then I sweat the pennies. I was in college when I paid close to $2500 for the 3 amps that I still have. That was a huge chunk of money to me back then, still is to me now in fact even though I make close to 4x what I did then plus my wife's income. Those amps were a long term investment and over their life so far have cost me about $250 a year. There are a lot of people on this board who call JL overpriced. These same people change their equipment as often as their underwear because they're never happy with what they have. They keep jumping to the flavor of the month and sell the used stuff at a loss. Over the course of a year or two they have thrown away enough money to have bought a full set of "overpriced" amps that would have served them well for many years. Ahh, the foolishness of youth... [/QUOTE]

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