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Do you own gear from defunct brands?

I bought my first stereo setup in 1977, though before that I had a stereo that was cobbled together from bits that I could cobble together.. Over the years I’ve purchased new equipment from companies that eventually went under. Do you have or had gear in your system from companies that went under? 
 

Right now I have a streaming transport from Auralic, which went out of business in September 2025. I owned a CAL cd player and that company went under while I owned that cd player. There’s been others too- 

 

zavato
bpoletti
1,590 posts
 

All my gear is from "defunked" brands except my phono cartridge, CD "transport," one of my amps (ML9) and some of the components' tubes. 

The "defunked" brand of most of my components is Herron Audio.  

mark200mph
842 posts
 

My body  and my hearing ,I'm getting old. Sad my aurilic is gone,lots of carver stuff but still can be rebuilt and all my infinity speakers. Bob carver was an epic designer in his day. My carver 760 will put out 2k  in transients. Monster elagansia ,surge protectors.vmps,pipe dreams,several cd players. I better go listen to music for it goes out.enjoy the paperweights

awboat
53 posts
 

Rectilinear and DCM. And I have two of The Fisher receivers. 

 

jhornby80
1 posts
 

I still own a AMR CD 77.1 - however after a two year nightmare of trying to have it repaired - I’ve given up. I’d be happy to own speakers, even amps by defunct brands but with my (lack of) ability to repair complex electronics I wouldn’t go down that path again for digital front ends. 

mswale
382 posts
 

Think once something is out of warranty, does it even matter? You can't really get service manuals anymore, most things are now surface mount and IC based. Almost no one can fix them anymore. 

Most of my system is vintage Hitachi, with vintage Klipsch speakers, most of them have been restored in the last couple years, hopefully they outlast me.

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