An Homage to Long Term Ownership


I have been an audio hobbyist for many decades. It seems that every 6 years I make a major upgrade to my 2 channel system. Upgrade an amp, six years later the speakers, six years later source equipment, then back to a new amp and so on. The one piece of equipment that I have held onto for 21 years is my Velodyne SPL 1000 sub. I bought the sub in 2000 for the princely sum of $800 when I had very little spare cash for anything. It is a small-ish sealed box with a 650 watt class D amp. The 10" driver has a huge butyl rubber surround and something like a six pound magnet. I have used this amp in various HT and 2 channel applications. It has never quit, bottomed out, clipped  or made a bad blooming or boomy note. It still works and looks fine. I hope their Lidar products work this well when autonomous driving is a real thiing.
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My longest running piece was a Sota Sapphire that I used from 1992 to 2020.  Next was my Pass Labs X350- from 2002 to 2021.  Now it sits in my son's house.  I have had my Thiel CS6 speakers since 2005.  The one thing in common is that these were very large purchases for me at the time and also were, and still are very satisfying components.  The only piece I have left going back to the 1980s is my VPI Magic Brick.  It now sits on my Power Conditioner- just because.