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Your Private Audio Museum

Many of you have mentioned that just when you thought your system was complete, you were overcome by the urge to upgrade and once again, found yourself changing components.

Having just missed bidding on an obscure integrated amp on ebay, I realized this weekend that I am suffering from an even stranger affliction, the compulsion to COLLECT and WAREHOUSE audio components, even if I have no time or even the intention to ever plug them in.

I used to imagine assembling systems from different vintages and putting them in different bedrooms as exotic clock radios for my guests.

But now I am wishing that I might have all of these components somehow be part of my listening room or library.

If you already collect - or plan to collect - multiple components or multiple systems, how would you propose storing or displaying everything?
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I have lot's of equipment i never sold or traded in when I 'upgraded' including:

Quad 57's, in bad need of a restoration

old Quad mono tube amps, later SS tuner

Old panasonic SP-10 TT, on Music and Sound plinth

ARC-Dual 75a, refreshed, recapped and retubed, doing yeoman's
duty as the rear channel surround amp in a HT set up;

Decca Ribbon tweeters;

Sequerra Ribbon tweeters;

various passive crossovers, cartridges (van de Hul, Grado, Sumiko cheapies, etc.)

Some of the stuff (the Quad amps) is on display in the listening room- other stuff just gets boxed and stored.

None of this was acquired as a 'collectible' but instead was used in the day, and is now no longer in use. But, the few
dollars I could get on sale or trade is not worth the trouble of getting rid of it; hence, the 'museum.'
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