Your Forever Pieces? What and Why?

Thanks @bdp24 .
I also use a Garrott Export with a side screw metal bracket. It sounds very good.

I’m tempted to paint my SDR Ducati red, think anybody’d notice?
Straying for a moment I came very close to a 2014 multistrada when my dealer had the annual fire sale, but I got caught up in the hype of the sdr and never even took the MS for a demo.

After reading more of this thread and getting a better feel for it I want to throw my bose 901 VI after finally reading the instructions and suspending them from the ceiling 2’x2’x2’ in the bass lock and dynamic punch from a realistic 55wpc receiver was fascinating! Had a nosey neighbor not introduced himself and then me to ’hifi’ I would be living in ignorant bliss enjoying music instead of constantly analyzing my system for shortcomings.

Simply said, there is a lot of gear that I miss so much for various reasons. One component that has endured for occasional use is a rebuilt Carver C-9 Sonic Holographic Unit. There are times that it's effects can't be beat and there are times when I leave well enough alone.

I'd also add:  My Thiel 02 and Spendor S3/5 speakers.  I've had the Thiels (fairly cheap monitors put out when Thiel wasn't yet doing time/phase coherent designs), since '92, and the Spendors since around 2001.  The 02 was my entry in to good sounding speakers and they remain for me a sort of benchmark, the way they combine organic tone, with a chameloen-like ability to do any instrumental timbre, and an aliveness and palpability that brings everything alive.  I still put them in to my system now and again, as I have for the past few weeks, and it still seems like they have things to teach me.

Same for the little Spendors.

I scooped up a pair of DSP8000’s sl that I upgraded to se and I’m sold on dsp now. A lot of speakers have passed through this room and any bass below 70 hz was a problem and made most speakers sound clinical. My room doesn’t seem to affect the output from these so they’re going to be difficult to let go.