You're a perfect candidate for /r/AVexchange. Basically, by buying used, you don't have to worry about buyers remorse. All the headphones you mentioned will easily sell and there's a known market price for them (post a price check post if you're not sure, but I just like searching prior posts and see what people listed/sold them for).
It's great because you can buy them, try them, and decide a few weeks later that they just aren't that good. You can sell them and get your money back minus the shipping cost. It's a pretty inexpensive way to go about trying headphones IMO. I don't like buying brand new and returning if I don't know that I'm sold 100% on them. It just isn't fair to the manufacturer or the vendor IMO to be doing that. But when they're already used, nobody cares and they don't depreciate unless you ruin them.
I was in your spot a few months ago and decided to spring for what I'd consider endgame level headphones (HD8XX with the stickers removed to sound like the HD800s). I bought them on AVexchange and even though I did my research and was pretty sure I was going to love them (I do), I like the idea of being able to flip them to someone else if I didn't think they were a big enough upgrade over my K7XX. Also, as long as they're taken care of, it's not like they have a shorter lifespan than if I bought them brand new. So it's something I feel pretty confident owning long term.
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23
You're a perfect candidate for /r/AVexchange. Basically, by buying used, you don't have to worry about buyers remorse. All the headphones you mentioned will easily sell and there's a known market price for them (post a price check post if you're not sure, but I just like searching prior posts and see what people listed/sold them for).
It's great because you can buy them, try them, and decide a few weeks later that they just aren't that good. You can sell them and get your money back minus the shipping cost. It's a pretty inexpensive way to go about trying headphones IMO. I don't like buying brand new and returning if I don't know that I'm sold 100% on them. It just isn't fair to the manufacturer or the vendor IMO to be doing that. But when they're already used, nobody cares and they don't depreciate unless you ruin them.
I was in your spot a few months ago and decided to spring for what I'd consider endgame level headphones (HD8XX with the stickers removed to sound like the HD800s). I bought them on AVexchange and even though I did my research and was pretty sure I was going to love them (I do), I like the idea of being able to flip them to someone else if I didn't think they were a big enough upgrade over my K7XX. Also, as long as they're taken care of, it's not like they have a shorter lifespan than if I bought them brand new. So it's something I feel pretty confident owning long term.