How long do you or should you keep your gear.

Don’t know yet. College system stayed with me from the late eighties through last year when I decided to do a ’small’ upgrade. From April 2020 to date, the entire old system disappeared into the basement, the components of my new system have changed twice and I built a back-up/office system. Seems to me that barring a couple of ’better’ power cords these systems are finished. I like ’em.

Depends on the gear.

New-fangled tech like streaming notwithstanding, I tend to keep my stuff until it breaks. If I like the sound I'm getting, I'll just continue to turn the machines on and let myself fall deeply into the music.

I have a gear I wanna keep forever. I purchased it in 2003.

I have FJ-Cruiser that I want to keep till 1M miles or over.

Until it doesn't do it for me any longer.