Very interesting list of posts. There are a few of my old favorites still floating around . Whether or not the company is still in business means nothing to me because I'm not living in the outback of Alaska. If I have a terrific McLaren preamp, I used to, from the late '80s and something just happens to go wrong with it, I'm surrounded by brilliant audio guys in the tri-state New York area who can solve the problem whether it be a capacitor or a volume control or whatever. There's nothing in the Holy Bible that says the manufacturer has to handle future issues.
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-
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