Purging, instead of endlessly storing

I have given a lot of stuff away to musicians and starving artists (deserving). When a undeserving gearhead or flipper shows up, it is no longer free, price goes up to market value.

My philosophy;  balancing the steep depreciation against someone truly appreciating a fine upgrade.

And why is it, generally speaking, that musicians have such terrible systems?  I’ve run across this situation for decades.  Puzzling.

This is not entirely true. Musicians with means tend to have good systems. Some more famous names..hmm, Lisa Gerrard (dead can dance) used to have a TAD  based system around 20 years ago. Hope Sandoval (mazzy star) had some rare audiophiley looking speakers from yamaha (some early rev soavo maybe). I know a Indian metal musician with a jbl dd67000. Others have higher end pro systems, customs, etc. Some would spend more on instruments than what an audiophile could ever dream of spending in a lifetime with his gear.

But, there are also lots of younger starving musicians (of course) who appreciate great sound when they hear it/would like to have it.

The conventional audiophile sound can sound fake/annoying to some. There is a big disconnect there. But, they are also trying to relate to 99% of their fan base who don’t have anything but headphones, soundbars or the sht in their cars.

And why is it, generally speaking, that musicians have such terrible systems?  I’ve run across this situation for decades.  Puzzling.

Good on those musicians.  The bari player for The Airmen of Note, Don New, had terrible.  I gifted a Yamaha 820 receiver and I believe Mordaunt-Short MS 20s.  He was ecstatic.  Lost track after he left the band.
 

Bass player for Pearl Django got some Mordaunt-Shorts and Cullen speaker cables to replace Bose 901s.  Was going further with electronics until he informed me that the cables didn’t fit under the carpet, so he moved the speakers to his office.  Lost interest.

My old band director has some decent cd player and DAC, Rega Cursa preamp with matching era Rega power amp and Focal floor standers from 10 years ago.  He had nothing before that.  Oh, and a 160GB loaded iPod from my library.  All jazz.

Offered the great alto player Brent Jensen a full system as I believe he is a bit of a starving musician.  No response by email.  Probably thinks I’m unhinged.  His offered system went to Surprise, AZ.  Perhaps he has enough.

I finally started giving equipment away, it feels so good to see them smile!