In the computer industry, a new budget laptop will be considered crap after maybe 3 years and it will be worth much less $$.

How about budget audio equipment? For example these devices:

NAD C326bee
NAD C515bee
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If I bought them today, how far into the future will jackfish's comment of "for a first system what you have selected will be very nice" still hold true?

In other words, are manufacturers constantly putting out new devices which are better and faster than previous models, and the old stuff gets upgraded and thrown in the dumpster?

How fast does this industry move?

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