An original Keith Monks Audio Labs record cleaning machine. Was moving a lot at the time and was sick of carting it about. Regretted selling it the moment it went to the shipper on it's way to it's new home in Germany.
Also a pair of Magnepan SMGa. IMHO a superior loudspeaker to the current MMG.
Talon Raven C speakers- was too impatient with their performance and was unwilling to work with them to optimize their performance-should have gotten rid of my McIntosh 6900 instead and found electronics to make the Ravens sing- never got to hear what they were capable of before I sold them.
Although we all have sold stuff we once owned and maybe still would like to have, we all got rid of it for a reason: something better came along. I bought Yamaha NS-690 speakers and loved them for a while, but then I heard the Rogers Studio 1s....which I kept for 20 years! I then found a nice set of Yamaha MS-1000M's, which are even older than the Rogers, so bye-bye Rogers. Do I regret getting rid of them? A little, but not enough to get me interested in getting them back.
Yes selling a Goldmund studio table with matching 3b arm,a pair of original Proac super tablettes, and the quicksilver mono amps, man what a combo for musical enjoyment.
Surprisingly, I miss my NAD 7140 receiver. All the gear I have now is better, but the NAD was very competent. I'm currently doing some maintenance and repairs on various parts of my system, and the 7140 was flexible enough it could pinch hit for just about any of the electronics.
I had to buy a spare preamp just to keep my rig going during the work. It's fine, but no better than the NAD. I should have just kept it.
KLH12 speaker systems. The only box speaker which sounded right to me. After a decade of Maggies I tried without success to find another good box, but no luck. Maggies again now.
Apogee Divas. I've owned pairs on two separate occassions. Selling the first pair when we moved to a house with a too-small music room; selling the second pair because we needed the bucks. But -- just like that 1960 Jaguar 3.8S Mk2 4-door that, as an always-broke college-kid, I couldn't afford to maintain -- I wish I'd been able to figure out a way not to have to sell 'em.
None. Everything I have now is better than anything I had in the past, or else I wouldn't have it. Though if I were still interested in LPs, I did rather like the Ortofon MC-20 and MCA-76 pre-preamp, and even better, the Stax cartridge.
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