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

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.

Pop was generous with his hand-me-downs! Linn LP12 with Rabco tonearm. Conrad-Johnson Premier 6. California Audio Labs Aria. Nakamichi 700 cassette. All but the Nak are in my system currently. (The Nak is in storage) 

Happy listening.