Any regrets in selling gear?

@dekay funny you say that, re:

"I keep planning to go with a simple SS setup with more traditional speakers, but doing so keeps getting put on the back burner."

Last year I had a friend who worked at Threshold for Nelson upgrade a Pass/Forte’ true Class A 50w SS amp for me recently, having the same simplicity ideas. Matching F44 preamp too. Super nice for what it is. One small aspect is missing. I listened to it over the summer for like 90 days straight leaving it in place. Swapped the all-tube system back in, and quickly realized I’m not getting rid of my tube system for simplicity any time soon if I can help myself. The layering is just unmatched with my all-tube setup, likely same as yours. Maybe a simple smaller SS integrated to swap in once in a while. Won’t be doing any serious listening with that though, maybe for background music just to have it on,  LOL.

I had a Yamaha A-S3000 four amps ago. It was the silver face model. IMO that amp was the most beautiful solid state integrated amp out there. It sounded great with my Infinity RS4b speakers. 

It wasn't a good match for the speakers I upgraded to after the RS4b's so I sold it. I have a 2nd rig now that uses the RS4b's and that's where I miss the A-S3000. 

BGW 250C, McIntosh 275, Hafler DH 101

Just landed on Audiogon today. Hope everyone is well. Great thread. Just talking about this. Not sure if it's regret - more had to because of kid safety ha. Actually regret yes. 

1st gen Quad ESL 57's - not restored (they were incredible) AKA as totally not safe 

2 Marantz 8B's rolled -- no cages 

Sonic Frontiers preamp rolled - cage-less  

Mod'ed Eico HF81 driven blocks - totally unsafe and shocked myself more that once

Merrill Heirloom rig with a DP6/Koetsu - could barely lift this 

All sold in a week 20+ years ago due to kids invading the bat cave. The thought of them grabbing a tube or having any of this even near them scared the heck out of me - especially if their friends whizzed around ran into any of it and the lawsuits started rolling in - lethal. My wife felt the same way - no lock on the door allowed for their well being (?) Not sure what that was all about. 

Of all of it, the Merrill rig is what I regret selling the most, There really was no reason to other than I wanted to buy an exotic camera lens. 

Gene Rubin set me up a LFD Mistral LE, Apollo CD Player (I think), Spendor S3/5's and an RP3 tt - and that is what I still am using decades later. It's decent mid-fi, however John Coltrane is not standing in front of me any longer.