Are you buying now because you anticipate higher prices?

[Titurel]

For me there is no fun in buying now. I enjoyed buying and trying Chinese audio equipment that is priced such that I can afford to take a risk on whether it suits my needs, and similarly so for Chinese and Japanese watches. I know that the gaming and aggressive tactics of the current USA government regarding international trade will have real and significant negative consequences. We face great uncertainty that may go on and on, but with the certainty that the situation will be purposely destabilized and manipulated to ends that are murky and possibly unfair, unjust, unjustified, and unrecoverable. Am I being cynical?

Trolling maybe?

 

[EJ3]

I bought 4 bottles of my favorite Scotch in case there are any disruptions in the supply chains, but otherwise not planning on making any other purchase because of possible price increases.

A GREAT audio purchase. Everything goes better with a good Scotch!

 

[EJ3]

(In my opinion hoarders are only slightly more respectable than looters.) My advice would be to buy as local as possible and calmly wait out the storm, which will likely be far less devastating than C. Little predicts.

Agreed!

 

[PristineSound]

I have my new speakers coming in next week, but it was ordered since November before all of this craziness, it was on back order.

I really want the Denafrips Athena preamp and two SVS subs, but don't have the $ at the moment. Hoping all this tariff talk is just a flop or dies down by the time I got the money to buy.

 

[EJ3]

No worry: no mod online at this time ...

That is why we should police ourselves.

 

[DMill]

A GREAT audio purchase. Everything goes better with a good Scotch!

Indeed a great fan of Islay scotches and even some very expensive ones. And an occasional $30+ cigar. Will I continue to purchase these things? I guess I would. I might actually enjoy them more knowing how scarce they’ve become. But I take no such pleasure in a DAC or most audio gear. There are exceptions of course.

 

[Somafunk]

A GREAT audio purchase. Everything goes better with a good Scotch!

A mate works at the Whisky Brokerage warehouse/shop below, it’s only a 15 mile/20min drive from my house and the smell inside the warehouse is intoxicating, as are the occasional “samples” i get to taste.

They are genuinely concerned regarding the tariff situation though

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[NADKEF listener]

A mate works at the Whisky Brokerage warehouse/shop below, it’s only a 15 mile/20min drive from my house and the smell inside the warehouse is intoxicating, as are the occasional “samples” i get to taste.

They are genuinely concerned regarding the tariff situation though

with some luck it will be dumped in the Netherlands, with the US market gone

 

[DMill]

with some luck it will be dumped in the Netherlands, with the US market gone

I’ll send my address to your mate today.

 

[wadude]

I needed a new computer anyway and the initial announcement of an impending, new, hefty consumer tax got the lead out. Now about speakers...

 

[BlackTalon]

No. Been thinking about replacing the TV in the family room the last few months, but the reality is we barely use it. Our son has a bigger/ newer one in the den if we want to see a bigger screen.

Our stereo systems are pretty well set. Eventually hope to get a Buckeye integrated, and sell off the amp and preamp separates (will be a net gain).

As far as cars go, my daily driver is only 21 years old, so should be good for a few more years. I enjoy not having personal property tax, and the low insurance. Plus it's a 6 speed, and has 300 HP and 325 ft-lb of torque so it's fun even though it's a sedan. My wife's mini-SUV would probably be the one that gets replaced because, uh, wife. It's nearing 10 years old, but it's a Mazda and in pretty good shape. But in my personal experience women often are not as trusting about older vehicles as men are.

We'll probably feel it most with food products. We get French- and Italian-made cheeses, wines, dried sausages, etc. a lot. Plus my wife gets a lot of grains that aren't readily available from US producers.

 

[Gitfiddle]

We'll probably feel it most with food products. We get French- and Italian-made cheeses, wines, dried sausages, etc. a lot. Plus my wife gets a lot of grains that aren't readily available from US producers.

If you ended up with a surplus of durum wheat pasta that can only end in good ways, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Lsc]

I have my new speakers coming in next week, but it was ordered since November before all of this craziness, it was on back order.

I really want the Denafrips Athena preamp and two SVS subs, but don't have the $ at the moment. Hoping all this tariff talk is just a flop or dies down by the time I got the money to buy.

Denafrips Athena is really good. Maybe get that first and subs later? Or were you already thinking in this order?

The new SVS subs are excellent. I heard them at Axpona over the weekend.

 

[PristineSound]

Denafrips Athena is really good. Maybe get that first and subs later? Or were you already thinking in this order?

The new SVS subs are excellent. I heard them at Axpona over the weekend.

The Athena and the SVS would be upgrades. But the speakers, I do need as I sold my old pair almost half an year ago, so I have nothing in my living room and I miss listening to music in my living room.

I also want to wait for someone to measure those new SVS subs, want to know how they perform with distortion profile.

 

[JeffS7444]

Not in a big spending mood right now, but I'm contemplating some smallish purchases while de minimis exemptions still apply. I'm thinking these will total $150-300.

These items include Beijing 6N2 and Shuguang 6P1 tubes, and if I'm understanding correctly, -J, -Q or -T variants are higher-grade, though I dunno how much it matters for a home audio amplifier.

MiniSA spectrum analyzer has been on my mind for some time, and it appears that prices have already risen by a few dollars.

Fnirsi LCR-P1 transistor tester or similar? Thought I might like having something of the sort the next time I need to match transistors.

Imported Bluray movie disks (Roy Andersson Collection), Region B.

 

[Chrispy]

Somewhat glad I'm not buying now, but as I have no particular needs and an excess of gear already, can probably at least wait thru this insane drumphy tariff issue.

 

[Phorize]

Agreed!

In the UK we like to let off steam by panic buying petrol when times are uncertain, and sometimes even when they aren't. I refrain from doing it myself as there aren't too many places in the UK that are more than a few days bike ride if push comes to shove.

 

[Chrispy]

In the UK we like to let off steam by panic buying petrol when times are uncertain, and sometimes even when they aren't. I refrain from doing it myself as there aren't too many places in the UK that are more than a few days bike ride if push comes to shove.

Just how much can you store with such panic buying and how?

 

[Phorize]

We used to be allowed to store up to 15 litres in a suitable container at home without a licence, not sure what it is now. I'm sure someone out there still has a few thousand litres stored in used milk bottles in anticipation of the apocalypse. Mind you, even the professionals get issues, I lived in St Alban's which was about 5 miles from this explosion-it blew my loft hatches out (guess what happened the moment the petrol stations opened that morning):

Buncefield fire - Wikipedia

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[MattHooper]

I’m not in a position to buy anything new at this point, but I was still doing my usual scrolling through the used equipment on places like USA Audi Mart, and I spotted a pair of speakers I’d always been curious about a really great secondhand price.
If I had the money right now, I probably would’ve grabbed them… in normal times.

But then it hit me that on top of the taxes I would also be paying a very hefty tariff, and that would put me off buying them.

It’s a new ball game now.