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Keeping Hifi Equipment For Sentimental Values

I am just wondering if anybody has kept a piece of hifi equipment just for sentimental values and nothing else. I recently just disposed off the last piece of audio equipment of my first audio system set up a decade ago during my college years when I sold my B&W CDM1SE speakers. It sure has some sentimental values to me in bringing back some memories of the residence hall in my campus but I thought I don't really need it anymore so decided it's time for the speakers to find a new owner that can appreciate it better. I have managed to hang on as long as I can to the speakers.

So, does anybody still keep any piece of hifi equipment throughout all these years although you don't use it or need it? If there is, what sentimental values does that piece of gear has in preventing you from selling it?
ryder
slikric3000
638 posts
 
I know someone who still has the first car he bought back in the day. A '68 Camaro, he restored it to pristine condition.
ryder OP
1,738 posts
 
I should have emulated a few folks here and kept my B&Ws! Anyway that's history now. At least I know tape players are still going strong after all these years, and I thought they were already gone for good and went into extinction. Yes, there are some good old memories of making copies using the "high-end" metal or chrome Maxell tapes on my Yamaha cassette deck. Unfortunately, I didn't make enough copies(probably less than 10) to warrant any sentimental values to the cassettes, and they ended up in the trash years ago when I cleaned up storeroom. The Yamaha cassette deck didn't survive the test of time either and went earlier.
tubed1
161 posts
 
I will take my Eagle 7a with me to the grave! And it has no sentimental value. It just is.
normansizemore
601 posts
 
Yeah, I seem to keep everything. My very first hi-fi was handed down to my Son. My daughter uses my first Dual turntable, youngest is enjoying my EPI's. But then, the hi-fi that I am curently using is so old it probably qualifies all on its own. Citation 16A amp, 17 preamp, Advent 201A cassette, Crown SX 822 reel to reel, Sony TC-755 Reel to reel, Dual 1229 turntable (with Grace 747 Tone Arm) and Definitive BP10 (purchase from Sany Gross himself). Its old, but I am happy.. :)
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