How much gear do you own?

@thecarpathian ...well, not quite 'vampires', per se...

They tend to inoculate anyone that stumbles into their 'hive', waking up in front of a screen or two keyboarding into the night....pallid from a lack of daylight and ethos....and Esoterica, wherever That is.... ;)

'Bot's Gnu Witch U. 
(For high level programming only....) 

It started innocently. An obsession with integrated amplifiers from my youth. IMO it was unfortunately not worth restoring my beloved NAD 3140 as they were just made to cheaply. After acquiring a number of KA8100 & 7100 Kenwood pieces and having them restored I stumbled upon the Supreme Series Model 600 to add. An Accuphase E202 later and I soon had Junji Kimura‘s bookends, the Pioneer SA900 & Kyocera A910. Ask me which sounds better 😉. That led to a CA2010 Yamaha as well as a Tandberg 3012. Mix in a McIntosh MA6100, Marantz 1060, Kenwood KA7002 and I am still missing a few key pieces of Sansui such as their AU-7700, AU-D11 as well as a G-8000 receiver to sit next to the only receiver in my collection, the Marantz 2330. All pieces have been lovingly restored by Paul Hovenga of Many Moons Audio.

Along with ads L810 (mirror imaged!), JBL L96, 2 pair of JBL 4313B and Original Large Advents, I also have KEF 103/3 (w/Kube & stands in original boxes) as well as 2 pair of Meridian M100 & a recently retired pair of M20.

Turntables tonearms & cartridges abound as well including a 100 pound steampunk with Empire/Pabst motor to 5 AR models w/arm boards, a couple of Kenwood KD-500 and a Thorens TD150 and a couple of Technics 1200 Mk5 in full updated trim.

Newish gear on the sidelines is the Sony TA-A1ES and matching HAP-Z1ES as well as a Rogue Sphinx II and a smattering of headphones and cables including the excellent Little Labs Monotor headphone amp from Jonathan Little. 

Current system needs to be updated to reflect the Dynaudio Heritage Special, Accuphase P-250 (w/Many Moons driver card update) & Koetsu Vermilion.

Doubtful that I’m done although I should probably start to thin the herd . . .

I believe at least 1 backup for every component is prudent.

You never know.

I have, and listen to, four systems raging from very simple to quite complex.  I had issues with getting rid of gear I have enjoyed for a long time and tend to reconfigure it into a secondary (tertiary etc....) system both for a change in listening and as a source of backup gear if anything screws up in the main system.

I hate wasting anything, including space, so I guess I am lucky that when I see something that I don't use it irritates me until I get rid of it. Usually it is somewhere I don't look at it regularly. 

I disconnected my CD player 15+ years ago and it sat on a floor under a bunch of stuff so it didn't cross my mind until I had to get something on top of it and was reminded of it. For the hell of it, I turned it on and it didn't work. That day I dropped it off to Best Buy's recycling bin along with a couple of old laptops sitting on top of it (took out the hard drives first).

Now the only thing sitting around is a BluRay player that get plugged in when my wife wants to watch old videos that were transferred from tapes or produced on DVD with a pretty nice interconnect that I replaced with a better shorter one (taking the waste philosophy to an extreme). I can't stand the sight of it next to my stereo equipment, and even put the cable box on the ground below the cabinet out of sight (thank goodness it works via wifi with the remote).

1 turntable (interconnect to phono stage attached directly and comes with power supply/power cord)

1 phono stage

1 interconnect from Phono Stage to amp

2 cartridges (1 is never used, but is theoretically for emergencies)

1 integrated amp

1 set of speakers

1 set of speaker cables

1 power conditioner (came with a power cord)

2 power cords (1 for phono stage one for amp)

platforms under the speakers, turntable and amps that take up minimal space

That's it. I hate making decisions and if I had to think about which turntable, cartridge, system or whatever to use in different situations I'd be wasting WAY too much time and mental energy.

Same with records - if I don't play it, I move it out of the selection area to the end because I can't stand looking at it, and once I  need that space, I'll sell or donate them.

I guess I am a reverse hoarder, and yet my wife doesn't throw out empty pill bottles and I get anxiety whenever I have to get something out of one of her "junk" drawers.