An audio component you just can't let go

That’s easy.  My Musical Fidelity A3cr preamplifier.  I bought it barely used too many years ago to remember.  It started out in my main audio system, got moved to my TV system and then moved to  my desktop computer audio system.  I’m not using my desktop system any more, which is a shame, but fading eyesight and my iPad nearly obsolete it.   It’s an important component of my computer audio system, along with its equally reliable mate, an Adcom GFA 535II amplifier.  my older Oppo 83SE  and an Audio Alchemy DDP-1 DAC.  A lot of  people would rejoice to have this good sounding system as their main audio system,  

it only takes a reading through this review to renew my resolve to never let this preamp go.  Every piece of music gear would rejoice to have received a review as glowing as this one.

https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/revequip/musical_fidelity_ac3cr_preamp.htm

I like to joke that when I die someone has to bury my Quad ESL-63 electrostatic speakers with me because there is absolutely no way I am going to be parted from them.  Fate was kind to me because she put a stray copy of Opera News in my doctor’s office where I happened to see it and then read an article which insisted that Quads were the perfect speaker for opera lovers.  I am an obsessed opera lover and I also love classical music of all kinds. Quads are renowned for their beautiful mid-range.  They do wonderful things for the human voice, for violin, piano, guitar and so much more.  I imported them in 1985, had them completely refurbished in 2017 or 2018 and then in 2023 I snapped up a just refurbished pair of the US Monitor version of Quads.  I  feel like the luckiest person that I will never need to agonize over what my next speakers might be.  I already have the perfect speakers for me and perfectly suited to the kind of music I like.