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

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.

Does anybody except myself still use a Lexicon DC-1 ? I just use it for 2 channel listening but I have found it to be pure without any deformation. I have had it about 30 years and I paid a very average price and the only drawback that I know exists, is that it is subject to failure from power surges. I used to live at the beach and the hurricane power surges got me a couple of times but I got that under control now. Just wondered if anyone else still uses this old equipment.

 Spectro Acoustics 217R preamp ,  been doing duty in the shop system going on 40 years 

Herron stack. First gen phono pre, last gen 360 preamp, and M1 monoblocks. 

Hardly defunct, but no more new production, so yeah.