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Audio System Donation

About the time I finish putting together my audio system I will be turning 68. Hope I have years of enjoyable listening but I won’t live forever. So I began wondering where to donate both the equipment and my eclectic CD collection in a ‘last will and testament’. No, family members is not an option. Considered a university common room but these days so many students go the rap and hip hop route. Most of my music would be wasted on this generation. Retirement communities, I suspect, would have the opposite issue – too vanilla – with way too few hard blues, fusion jazz and rock listeners at such a quiet place.


Thought I could open up a discussion here to receive reasonable suggestions. “Give it to me” is not a reasonable idea, and I will simply take down this post if people are that selfish or insensitive on this site.


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barts
731 posts
 
This may not work for you.........but my plan is to right now start selling
off all the "extra" amps preamps tuners CD players DACs integrated amps reel-to-reels that I've been collecting/using for the past several decades.  Boil it down to one system, which is still quite a bit of equipment.  At the appropriate time sell that as well and just go with a 
tube headphone amp and headphones using a streamer as source.
Still probably about $5-7K worth of gear, but can be put in the backseat of a car, as opposed to the truck it would take to move my gear now. No one else in my family has the room or the "room" for it. But they sure as hell enjoy listening to it.
Hopefully I'll know when this should take place. All the best to you.
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tomic601
13,025 posts
 
@jrwaudio my new hero!!!!

for the OP think about where you might like proceeds from sale to go vs. heirs, are there music or arts events / organizations you might like to support ?
jrwaudio
354 posts
 
@tomic601 That's great as I've never been a hero before :  ))
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