Many of the responses are a bit cold but really, when you are gone you are gone. My brother-in-law (I have one sister who is 10 years older than me) passed about 3 years ago. But he was failing for a long time. He had a great system by late seventies standards: Quad Electrostatics, Mark Levinson Electronics, Meridian CD and economized on the Vinyl Playback, the Linn Axis. Think he later regretted that move. Before they (he and my sister) made their last of two moves, he gave the system to a workman or mover. His two sons were infuriated. But I'm sure almost all needed servicing. And even though neither are as successful as he would have wished, they can afford great gear. I have spent the last two years slowly disposing of ancillary stuff. My expectations are incredibly low so everything has sold quickly. Enjoy while you are here and stop worrying. The picture is of my wife. I have no idea how this got tied to her Facebook account. I don't Facebook.
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?
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