Your Forever Pieces? What and Why?

An original Well-Tempered turntable and arm that I bought new. That would have been back in the 80's. Still, the only one I own and feel no need to upgrade at all.

ARC Classic 60 amplifier that I keep on hand as a spare. Had it gone through by a tech about a year ago. Hooked it up and it was really ... really good. Bought the Classic 60 used from a friend back in the 80’s.

Legacy Signature III’s. Had them for about ten years now ... and I will never sell them. Once a system is totally locked in, they are wonderful. My speakers for life.

Do records count? I know they can be considered as "components" as well. If so, I still have many of the jazz albums I started collecting as a kid back in the 50's. Same with 4 track reel to reel tapes.

Frank

Vegasears.
That is one neat story, even for me that would be a keeper!

Frank
I guess we can count records too.
But not tweaks ok!

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The only "permanents" are my LPs and CDs. My current system meets my needs so well that I can't see selling it. However, if I come into a windfall, I'll probably start wondering how I can "improve" it.

The SOTA Sapphire turntable and Magnepan Unitrac tonearm I purchased in 1983 still work as well as the day I bought them. Given the prices of high quality turntables and tonearms these days; the hassle and risk that would be involved in sending the table in for the upgrades that are available; and my increasing gravitation toward digital sources, I have no plans to replace them in the foreseeable future.

Also, I don’t envision replacing the Stax Lambda Pro headphones I purchased in the mid-1980s. The foam in their earpads which covered the electrostatic elements started to disintegrate a few years ago, and I replaced the earpad/foam assemblies with genuine Stax originals I bought from Audiocubes.com. Some years ago I also replaced the Stax solid state headphone amplifier I had been using for many years with a 1980s tube-based Stax amplifier I purchased used, which was a very nice improvement.

Best regards,
-- Al

Empire 4000 d/iii since 1990
Grado signature since 1996

Roberjerman, How does the Grace tonearm compare to the Lustre tonearm (sound wise)?