What would you save in a fire?


Had the unpleasant experience of the Palisades fire nearly burning my house down. As in, I left driving through a firestorm and when I returned all except the actual structure was blackened. I then had to choose what to take with me before fire makes it way back the other side of the hill (which it’s doing now) and stuff my car. I was able to take about 300 out of 10k records, 2 turntables (one that is 250 lbs and almost gave me a hernia), my DAC, 2 phonostages… but had to leave my Aleph 1.2 monoblocks and speakers. Although I did also save 4 TAD woofers, 2 compression drivers, 2 horns and tweeters. I left everything else, spare a shirt and underwear.

I know it sounds materialistic or petty, but the music means everything to me. My wife saved 20 pairs of shoes haha. My question for you is… if you had to choose quickly, what would you save? Would your system make the cut?

au_lait

@larsman I feel for you with the negatives. I have thousands of sports and concert negatives as well, but have scanned them all and they are stored at cloud sites, so I would have that to fall back on. 

Are you threatening me just to get at my stereo?

I've heard of scams to get a stereo cheap but I mean REALLY!laughlol

@au_lait So sorry to hear of your situation and others here in California also suffering w loss or the threat of loss…

What would i take ? The better 7/8 , passport, insulin….. A 50# TAD under each arm would remind me a bit 2 much of a certain TAS cover ( i’m surely dating myself with that… )

and for those who think they know water… a must read; The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax

But seriously, a Fox best seller….