Do you have any gear that was outright given to you?

Given some to friend with cancer to ease the burden.😃

I’ve definitely given some gear away to new audiophile friends in an excuse to replace with nicer. Also gifted friends with speaker builds. I’ve received a few small basic items but was also gifted some very nice crossover parts for my speakers when I was building them. Forever thankful for that.

Yes , I was gifted a Musical Fidelity CD-1 transport. I sent it to the manufacturer and had it serviced at a cost of $150. I paired it with a nice cable and it works well. Same person gave me a pair of Rogue M-180’s that one had an issue. I sent them to Rogue and it needed a single resistor on the driver circuit. Rogue said the diodes were tired in both power supply’s. Since they were free I went for a full Dark upgrade and new tubes. My FREE amps wound up costing me $3K , but that was my choice. 

I wish! lol

A perfect pair of Chartwell LS3/5as with an extra NOS woofer that my neighbor had and his adult kids gave me when he passed away and they were cleaning out the house.

Good karma I guess.