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 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.'

 

 

I miss (but not regret) selling two pairs of speakers: Thiel CS 3.6 and Infinity RS Kappa 8 speakers. Both are finicky to place, and are hard to match electronics to, but when set up properly they are magical