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How Often do you Change Your Gear

mrdecibel - funny...I actually don't change my equipment very often.... quite the opposite.....in the last 20 yrs I had 4 or 5 amps, 5 preamps , maybe 5 different speakers and only 4 different CDP
Haha, funny is right!  In the last FIFTY years, I have owned (average # per year):
three turntables (0.06)
two tonearms (0.04)
three cartridges (0.06)
two CD players (0.04)
two cassette decks (0.04)
three DACs (0.06)
three preamplifiers (0.06)
five stereo amplifiers, (0.1)  and
five pairs of stereo speakers (0.1)

I have also acquired a lot of LPs and CDs  because, for me, this hobby really is All About the Music (though I do own more books than my CDs and LPs combined).

How about you?
128x128phomchick
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Depends on the gear my mood and the season etc.
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three_easy_payments
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how do you even properly break in 5 speaker pairs per year on average???  The logistics of all that equipment swapping makes my head spin.  I guess I'm more on a multi-year (every 5 plus years?) cycle.
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phomchick OP
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how do you even properly break in 5 speaker pairs per year on average??? The logistics of all that equipment swapping makes my head spin.

I’m sorry to be unclear. I averaged 1/10 of a speaker set per year (0.1). Stated another way, I kept each pair of speakers for an average of 10 years.
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three_easy_payments
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@phomchick   Ah, now i see what you meant!  
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uberwaltz
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If you buy your gear used it should already be broken in so you get a good quick idea on sq.

You do not want to know my equipment cycle rates ...... lol
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