How to dispose of your system?

All going to my kids, one mans garbage is another mans gold. 

I have made and kept up to date a spreadsheet with my system, what I paid for it and what each unit's original list price - I bought most of it on close-out or used. As I have been pronounced "terminal" sometime in the next year, I check the "sold" category on eBay for recent prices and update the sold prices on a regular basis. My wife won't care what it brings, just so it's gone. She doesn't share the hobby but lets me enjoy it.

I don't want my wife to get ripped off if I drop dead. I'm going to start selling things off in the next year or so. Whatever is left, I'd rather see donated rather than sold to lowballers. Sadly, very few people want this stuff anymore.

Sadly, very few people want this stuff anymore.

True, and yet:

Whatever is left, I'd rather see donated rather than sold to lowballers.

"Lowballers" or legit buyers willing to pay today's market price? Which is drastically lower than wishful thinking and the enticing prism of nostalgia suggest?

And then you wonder why nothing sells.

I am a retired CFP, Certified Financial Planner.  I worked in a trust and estate law office for 8 years.  We told people that if they were going to leave gifts ($) when they died yet could afford to give those gifts at that time, do so.  This allows the beneficiaries to say thank you and you to see the enjoyment on their faces. 

As for audio equipment, if you can, give it away now when you can help set it up and see the joy you have given.  Try a group that helps refugees.  There may be someone who was an engineer in a past life who can enjoy setting up a system that s/he could never afford.

Second, take a look at Happy Money by two psychologists,  Dunn and Norton.  It will change, for the better, how you think about money.

Finally, talk with an experienced trust attorney.  Well worth the money.