An audio component you just can't let go


What is a component you just can't seem to let go or sell even after you've already upgraded and not really using it anymore. What makes this component so special?

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My Technics SL1350 TT,Sony STR 7065,Both from 1973...they still worked sound good.

I’ll never part with my Linn LP12. I have changed many components over the year. 6 dac in 2 years. The LP12 is there since 2013 and will never leave. 

My Brooks Berdan custom modified SME IV tonearm. Both fortunately and unfortunately, he fitted it with the thinnest silver Cardas wiring, shot closed foam in the armtube for elimination of resonance and epoxied both ends of the tonearm and RCA box so it may die one day.

Also, I don’t anticipate upgrading my speakers unless I become wealthy (Von Schweikert VR9....to an Ultra 9 or 7).

Also, I don’t anticipate upgrading my amps, Westminster Labs REI or CD transport Jays Audio CDt3 Mk3.

Everything else is open to change without any date or really desire at this time. Dumped most of the tweaks as unnecessary with high end equipment.

Aesthetix Rhea Eclipse. The best upgrade I have ever purchased. Keeps getting better, purchased in 2015

My lifetime “keeper” is a New York Audiolabs Moscode 600 hybrid power amp, circa 1982. It is said to be the first hybrid tube/mosfet power amp ever. It outputs 300 wpc into 8 ohms using 7 tubes in the input section. It’s also tube rectified. And it still sounds fabulous!