It's hard to let things go; it's good to let things go

@buellrider97 Yes… a great deal of what you say rings very true… at age 12 I was swamping .50cal barrels with a bastard file as an “ indentured servant “ in my Dad’s gun shop. Let’s just say I am no stranger to Olympic levels of accuracy… and yet keeping a Doyen engraved grade 5 Diana Superposed seemed like locking a Monet in a broom closet… Ego / Need / Results ? Bravo on your work to create Kingdom Come to the “ least of us “

today the best I could do was give away a box of records and light a mono fire under a new friend…

peace n grace

thx Hilde for starting this… you are the flint…. Eh…

To all who have posted nice comments, I thank you and my wife thanks you.  I've never been happier in my life.  In my marriage and with my stereo.  And I shot 77 today.  Honestly, does it get any better than this?  It could all start to change tomorrow but until then, I'm thankful for every day and trying to enjoy it to the fullest.  Cheers.  

It's good to let hard things go.

I sold what was considered in the UK to be the ideal 70s front end.

 
Garrard 401

SME 3009 Series ll improved

Shure V15 Mk3

SME 2000 plinth system

The footprint of this mammoth system was huge. Okay to have it set up in a hi-fi room, but in a living room it became an elephant in the room. The SME plinth and perspex lid was designed to accept the widest and deepest turntables, plus the tallest longest arms.

l often see the same system for sale on eBay. One again this week on a “buy it now” a short 17 miles trip away. I have previously often thought, shall l go for it this time?

The nostalgia trip doesn’t last very long before l rethink, “where the  £#€¥  would l put it?”

The best thing I ever let go of was my 1965 Stratocaster.  Sold it last year and made enough money to buy 3 newer guitars.  (I don't follow the rule of disposing of one thing for every thing I take in.)

In a more audiophile context, the best thing I disposed of was probably my Magneplanar 3s, that I sold when I bought my Apogee Duettas.  The Maggies were nice for smaller-scale acoustic music, but lacked the bass that the Duettas have in spades.