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

Heirs know how to use my gear and value. Which heir(s) wants the gear and vinyl, they will decide.  If no one want, then I have included a provision who to contact to help sell gear and vinyl. That person (personal friend in biz) has agreed to help and sell at decent market value. 

It seems to me that in general the younger generation has very little interest in purchasing large expensive two channel audio systems.  They seem more interested in buying a quality DAP/IEM system and being done with it.  I truly hope that I'm mistaken, but I've seen this on several occasions and the younger generation in my own Family use their iPhones and laptop computers to stream music.  They like the simplicity, portability and general convenience of owning smaller sized components. 

When my dad died a few years ago, I took over his gear and use it today.  I'm Gen X though but I know what he had.  We're not all morons for the boomers in the chat.

"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?

Who said anything about nostalgia?

I really think this is a good discussion, especially if you're older 

And how elaborate your system is. 

I am at drop Dead anytime age 😆 61 And I have a very elaborate system 

And as one member mentioned most people don't know how to turn on the system cuz it's so complex these days, I have a separate subpanel with four individual breakers for four outlets for my stereo components I have a 12-year-old son 

That I have been saying to him I'm leaving the system to you You need to know some things number one it shouldn't be moved because of the electrical requirements on this system I explain the subpanel to him he knows how to turn it off and on I told him exactly what the system would cost if it was new 

And it wouldn't make sense to sell it This is something you keep for the rest of your life I think 10k systems or less wouldn't be such a big deal to pass on 

To a family member but for some of the higher end systems

Need to be discussed with family members because they're more complex and if you're older you should be having this conversation with your loved ones because there are a lot of systems in this group that are a few hundred k 

And above those are the systems that need to be discussed and 

With loved ones That old saying says here today gone tomorrow is definitely reality. 

 

Dan