I'll probably keep mine too (but not totally decided). As for resale value, I'd rather give a buyer the serial number if asked than have to tell them it's a "refurb". The average joe on E-bay probably will not be scholar on 950 history - but eveyone understands that refurbs deserve an extra discount.

The up-side? That's confusing. You would think if the noise floor improvement was as significant as people were reporting, that the new unit would sound clearly better than the old one. Though the reports also say that the sound difference is virtually nil.

My original reason for trading in was to see if the general harshness in 2 channel was improved upon. I hear that its not. So in that case, given my unit has hiss that's inaudible at normal distances, why trade in?

Market value? I'd rather sell a used unit that a used referb unit. Peace of mind? Heck the warranty's for 5 years anyway and at least I know mine came new from the factory without being opened and worked on manually by techs in the mean time.

Unless you have one of the "high hiss" models, I don't see any advantage in trading in for the refurb. But I'm willing to be convinced otherwise if there's something I haven't considered.


[This message has been edited by HT crazed (edited August 31, 2002).]