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
The one and only "Grant 102S" from Roy Grant of UK. Since I've owned and kept this amp since the early 80's and longer than any amps I've owned, it's definitely a keeper for life. It has been a work horse in my sound room driving difficult speakers from Infinities, Martin Logans to Dynaudios without a hiccup. Dollar for dollar, this amp can hardly be equaled. I am curious if there are other owners or previous owners who have or had this amp. Would appreciate to hear from you.
Air Tight ATM-3 monoblocks. Owned them for over 20 years. Never had to replace a single part, except tubes. Got a fantastic deal on them new---less than one third of the price they're going for new today.
I have had Mark Levinson 33H & 33
EDGE Signature 1.1
Levinson 436's
Pass Labs X250
Conrad Johnson Premier 12 & Premier 8A
Parasound JC 1's

All of the amps above where great amps, but none IMHO capture the timbre, emotion and perfomance like the VAC.
Meitner STR-50 Plus modded. Or any Meitner 55, 100,101. All meitner amps are the best over all sounding amp ever. Its just a great sounding amp. It sounds as if it has a tube pre section in its sonic presentation. I will never part with my Meitner STR-50 modded. Oh! And I still have a set amp and a Cary and Copland tube amps and Ive had many SS amps but as the SS comes and go the Meitners stay. Just in case you dont think I have auditioned other amps.