Your Forever Pieces? What and Why?

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.