How to dispose of your system?


A lot of us are getting to the age where  we may start thinking about what will happen to our precious systems when we’re gone?  Will they be sold in pieces, breaking up the synergy we’ve worked so hard to establish? That seems to me to be criminal.  
What about trying to sell the whole system, kit and kaboodle, maybe to a member of this forum? Would anyone, perhaps a novice, be willing to pay for a very finely tuned instrument? 
If the system cost say,  $35K to put together, what would a fair price be?

rvpiano

I Have 2 two executors on my will. I have no Kids or living relatives. Just me with a ton of Hi-Fi gear and a repair shop in my home withe about 40K worth of test equipment. When I go ...it will all  be sold by the executors with my home and my classic car and daily HUMMER H2 Driver. 

All the money will go to St Judes Childrens Hospital. I'll be dead and won't miss any of it. But just before I go in my last breath I will think of all the great Music and repairs that I have overcome and finished. I will Smile. 

Just forget about your equipment and Check out with piece of mind.

 

Mark R 

 

If know one in the family is interested in the system sell it to The Music Room and get cash. I’m sure they would be interested in that. 
But seriously when we’re gone you’re not going to care. I went through this creating my will with my lawyer. I realized I was trying to control how my daughters used what money is left, from the grave. 
I talked over with myself and thought it was a good idea. Then I realized I was talking to an idiot. 

I told my kids look for _________ when I die. It will have all my documents, bank account, life insurances, car title... and a list with pictures, description, msrp and a range of resale prices. When they find a little wooden box with Japanese writing on it, they will know what that little thing inside the box is and what it's worth.  Everything else if they don't want it, throw it out. But there are some things that are NOT on the list but worth some.  My boots.  Mobile Fidelity and other records.  100x hat.

This maybe morbid but, who cares your dead, your love of your system is your love not anyone else’s. After spending 6+ month selling off a good friend’s system after he passed, I would suggest not having friends do this work its time consuming and a pain in the you know what. Arrange to have a dealer come get it all and sell it all off for your dependents, put this in your will if you think that will help. Don’t burden them or your friends with this chore because after your gone that’s what it is, a chore to deal with, especially if they are grieving.

I dont want  to be pessimist but in the years to come there will appear suddenly many stereo systems on the  used market at these times at very low price.  Wars, epidemies,civil unrests will increase.

I dont give a damn about my low cost stereo system and no more about my books...

I understand all those who want to spare the pain of the disposal arrangement...

But there is way more hard problems appearing in our windows...

Nobody can sell his system before dying ...

And dont trouble yourself with these details which can appear soon  like dust facing  a harsher tempest ...

It is not hard to be prophet nowadays....