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You are a KEEPER or a SELLER?

Everyone tends to collect stuff. But some are better at shedding excess stuff than others. I find it hard to sell stuff nowadays.. I can remember stuff I DID own and sold, much to my later regret. And stuff I bought and for my life can't figure out what I was thinking when I bought THAT chunk of junk. So my question is;
Are you a KEEPER, or a SELLER? or a little of both?'Just how many extra bits and do-dads do we each have tucked away? Some have dozens of slightly used cartridges in a cigar box. Other had a garage filled with exotic electronics. Another piles of cables.. Some all of everything.Then those spare, remarkable folks who have one perfect system with NO junk in storage.
Anyway, i have extra stuff. i currently own FIVE turntables and tell myself constantly to sell at least two of them.. I have two amps, three preamps, seven Cd spinners... A closetshelf full of various interconnects (I just hate them getting tangled up)
Extra powerline conditioners, I have way too many..
Stuff i WISH I had: piles of NOS tubes.. A few more great carts.. just to sit there...
This is all BESIDES the music.
What've YOU got?
elizabeth
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transnova
294 posts
 
I'm both a keeper and a seller(occasional giver as well).I sell when things become cluttered or when I need $$$.

I tend to keep favorite speakers the longest.I also keep 2 channel analogue amps,preamps and tables and cables longer than digital and HT gear which becomes dated in a year or two.A/V receivers and pre-pros are the worst culprits!
tvad
9,467 posts
 
I'm a seller.

Some of the stuff I've sold has proven to be a major mistake...especially tubes, e.g. matched *quad* NOS Siemens CCa in original boxes, matched quad of original Genelex Gold Monarch KT88. The list goes on...
kenk168
175 posts
 
I multi-task.
steveaudio
328 posts
 
One thing about deciding to "clean house", even partially, is that hopefully you'll get so much cash, or in your PP account, that it will make you forget how much you liked the stuff (if you did). And if it's not even worth selling on fee-bay or CL, schlepping some boxes of stuff to Goodwill or Salvation Army can make your house feel "lighter".

But like Tvad, I have a few selling regrets: A mint condition Nikon from the early 80's, that I bought new in SF. A Fender-Rhodes electric piano that I drove to NYC to buy in the early 70's, then sold too cheap about 10 years ago. An old bmw. Things I had personal history with.

Audio gear, some things I'd still love to have, like a pair of Merlin TSM-M's in a cool red finish, a VTL pre-amp etc., but I got top $$ for them at the time.....


rrog
1,958 posts
 
I don't know why, but I have about 10 pairs of speakers, all different shapes and sizes from Maggies to high quality monitors.
I have 4 good quality amplifiers both tube and solid state.
2 tube preamps and 1 solid state preamp.
3 CD players.
2 turntables.
And numerous vintage equipment including integrated amplifiers and receivers I have collected.
Like most of us I have a closet full of interconnects and speaker cables, spare tubes, cartridges and assorted parts.
I almost forgot I have a subwoofer too.
Oh yeah and 2 tuners.
Make that 11 pairs of speakers. I just remembered another one.
There may be something I'm forgetting.
I guess that would make me a KEEPER.
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