Time for spring cleaning

Man, you guys are too much. I have one extra XLO 2a balanced cable, that's it. That's money sitting in your closets!! My system lists for about $25k but cost me less than $10k. Any money I can get for a spare anything, it's for sale, it's upgrade time. Sometimes I wish I had extra stuff laying around because sometimes there is a week or so in between items when I can't listen cause I'm missing a piece. I guess if I scale down I could afford extra parts. NNNNAAAAHHHH!!!!

I tend to roll over my old equipment for upgrades, but still have some oldies around, like and older HK EQ, some Nordost Blue heaven speaker wire, and an Acurus A250. I had a Rotel tuner that was in the closet for years, now that I upgraded to a seperate pre/pro and amps, I use it again...

Some of my eqipment dated back to college, and I just gave it away to friends as it was suffering some problems not worth fixing. They use them and are happy.

I find I'm always selling off my 'spare parts' to get better, different new ones! Besides, living in a condo, I don't have enough storage space for all the boxes for what I use!

Mrderrick & others--many thanks, I loved reading this! Let's team up & launch a virtual audio charity shop. I can chip in with cables and some old-fi piling dust... a couple of Micromega CD players (solo & optic), a Cambridge c100 pre, a pair of rogers LS3/5A, a used Blue Point Special, somewhat used VdH MC10 & 20, a Maranz cas. deck, Nordost cables (Red dawn, spm, quattro fil), Siltech (silver IC) Symphonic Line cables (speakers & ic), DNM cables (ditto), Kimber (speaker: 8 something), Madrigal (IC) + the usual bric-a-brac: mitchell speaker posts - WBT rcas, etc.
On second thought, maybe I should trade in my quattro fils & Siltech as downpayment for a new house!

This thread makes me feel better about what's hiding in the closet... pairs of Apogee Centaurs and Maggie sMGA's; PS Audio Source/PS1 pre-amp; Rotel 965BX Ltd, DAC In The Box and DTI; Luxman tuner; Luxman cassette deck; Thorens TD160 Super turntable. This dooesn't count extra IC's, speaker cables, tubes and other "spares". The good news is that I'm now using my old Adcom GFA555 as a sub amp and got rid of the 8 track collection/equipment when I moved.

I just wanted to chime in on this theme. From my leftover equipment which I have not passed on to friends and relatives or sold on Audiogon, I put together this pocket home theater system, which is set up in front of my exercise bike(!!): Sony 20" TV, baby NAD integrated amp about 10 yrs old (I think model 210), Mirage mini-monitor speakers w/Mirage sub about 8 yrs old, Sony VCR, and 12-yr-old Yamaha laser disc player in great condition; Kimber PBJ, Monster, and Straightwire cables. No center channel or rears--this is a pocket-theater, after all! I had to show some restraint. This exercise system occupies the back corner of my high-end listening room, with my "real" stereo.