Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?


Just wondering, with this audio merry-go-round of buying and selling, if anyone has an amp that will be a keeper for life. I haven't yet but came verrrry close once...
sonicbeauty
My father still has the SAE Mark XXXI he bought in 1976. Everything else in his system has changed, but that amp still sounds just fine driving a pair of B&W 804Ns. Since he's now 83 years old and has no intentions of buying another amp, I think this one will qualify.
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I've tried very hard to find an amp that would let me sell my CAT JL2, SS, many tube amps, and unfortunately I have not found anything close to the CATs (many amps that sounded wonderful in their own right, and easy amps to live with). This is unfortuante since the run hot as hell, consume a lot of power, are expensive to retube, and weigh 180lbs - all things I hate, but the sound in my system with the CATs is incomparable (it has always been clearly superior, not a hairsplitting difference), so getting rid of it is just very unlikely to happen.
There are no amplifiers for life. There is though, people not very opened to changes on they're systems :-). Once they start listening to different pieces of equipment, they will realize that High end is like a fine wine, there is always a better one ...