Any regrets in selling gear?


By its nature, our hobby/passion for gear encourages buying and selling gear, hoping to land on a final purchase, that point of satisfaction where you can sit back and just enjoy the music without any niggling issues about there mechanics of it all.

That said, is there any gear that you came to regret selling? 

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I have had three sets of AR3a's and two sets of JBL L100's that I regret selling.  I have zero of either now, and wish I had somehow held on to a set of each.  I have managed to collect a set of AR6's, AR4x's, AR12's, AR2ax's and several other vintage speakers.

For a while I had tried to set up a vintage system in one room and a more advanced, non-vintage, system in my main listening room.  Now both systems are probably more vintage than new.  But in wanting more items, I stupidly sold some items I wish I hadn't.     

Original 15 ohm Rogers LS 3/5a. Purchased for $495 in 1977.  Sold for around $2k in 1995 to help start a business.   Worked out well with th business, but still miss the speakers.

Around the same time, sold a Marantz 8b for $225 as I headed off to college because a dorm room is no place for a tube amp. Should have just put it in parents closet until I graduated.

the pair- the 8b into the LS3/5a - was magical.

I don’t truly regret anything I’ve sold because I simply had to.

But I do get quite wistful about my MBL 121 omnis.

I owned them for about 10 years and nothing else sounds like them.

 

I also Sometimes would like to listen to a pair of waveform Mach MC

Monitors that I sold.  They were such a A beautiful balance of monitor like

Frequency response, yet warm toned and completely disappeared.

I regret selling my pair of teak 15 ohm 1986 Rogers LS3/5a’s, my Naim NAP 135 monoblocks, and my Classe DR3 VHC. Other than that I’m content with the audio gear I presently own. 👍

A phono stage because I needed the money. But now boy do I regret it. It was terrific. Wish I had found another way for the money or found a way to do without the $.

Talk about regrets. A friend's grandmother left her a Van Gogh signed woodblock print. My friend sold it to pay for her college instead of taking out a loan. 10K in the 70s. I was not impressed. I said why didn't you hold on to it? She said Sotheby's told her it would deteriorate. I figured they just wanted the commission THEN to meet a budget quota.

I brought it up to her recently. She said 'I don't want to talk about it.'