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Having cancer, I decided to downsize and simplify now to enjoy the music which is very therapeutic. Also, having two bone marrow transplants my hearing has become very sensitive to high frequencies at age 65.
Sold was my Aura Nemo CDP, Pathos Classic MKiii and most regrettable my PenAudio Cenya loudspeakers. The PenAudio are one of the best monitors I have heard or owned.My wife would have no idea what to do with over $5,000 worth of equipment on the used market or where to sell or negotiate the price.
I decided to simplify and buy direct from brick and mortar or factory direct on demos or used in order to get the support from the dealer in the event anything happens to me.
Here is what I ended up getting. I picked up a Syntheses in Art Pride CDP and Nemo 25 WPC tube 6l6 integrated and upgrated the signal/splitter tubes to NOS RCA 12ax7's. Really nice improvement. I also needed a remote. Synthesis is a 20 year old Italian company that hand makes all their equipment and it shows in the quality. They are a music lovers equipment type company.
The last thing was the speakers. A tall order to fill the shoes of the PenAudio Cenya loudspeakers. I happen to come across a small company called Bogdan Audio Creations and picked up a demo pair of the Art Deco Coaxial speakers. This was the real surprise, for half the cost they come real close to the cenyas. Bogdan makes each speaker by hand and uses a top of the line seas 7 inch coaxial driver. Great bass foundation,top end extension, subtle detail and unbelievable coherency.This is my first experience with a coaxial driver.
In the event I do pass, all my wife has to do is contact two dealers who hopefully will prevent my with from loosing money if the kids don't want to fuss with the stereo.
I have attached a photo of the new system.
In thinking, we make as an asylum offer assistance to spouses or families in selling the equipment of loved ones so they don't have to take a financial beating.
Best,
Art
Sorry to sound morbid, but it is the reality of life.
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the survivor would be my brother, he would just throw it away.
he can throw it my way.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Sell it here on the Asylum Trader.
Nt
the average age here is surely over 50, this is a good post. We all need to be prepared. The gear is an asset, larger for some, but needs to managed the way any other would.
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That's a very good point. Each of us has probably spent years assembling a system that gives us pleasure and the reveals the passion embedded in the music that we have collected. Why not reveal as much to out progeny and let them in on the secret? Don't just tell them about the system you have put together-demonstrate it for them. Tell them about the significance of it's existence.
I speak from experience on this matter. In my early twenties I was fortunate enough to have been stationed in Germany and was led to wines by my Father. That led me to explore the best in life. What is considered the best and why is it considered the best? What is so good about it? I am not in my late 50's and have therefore spent approaching 40 years exploring the best life can offer-wines, food, cars, art, gardens, literature, comedy, cinema, architecture, furniture, textiles and many other genre. Why would you take the time and effort to assemble this fine assemblage of equipment and not take an equal time to pass on your knowledge to those who will inherit the Earth, like or or not?
Perhaps you could invite your children to bring their own music and let them experience the joy of music at it's best so they can make an informed decision about the fate of your equipment and your music? You never can tell what the future will hold. As an example when we were seventeen my twin brother took me into the living room and said, "Check this out!" He played Ode To Joy from Beethoven's ninth symphony. Consider this was something being played to someone who was a card carrying member of the junior hippie league who was steeped in music from The Beatles, The Who and Arlo Guthrie. I was enthralled. It was music! Forget that it wasn't cool. Forget that it wasn't current-it was music! It wasn't long after that that I started listening to Sinatra, Mozart, Art Blakey and others. I still listen to rock and roll, but my musical tastes have expanded over the years. If you give them the benefit of the doubt perhaps you will merely be planting the seed, a seed that will take many years to grow into a mighty oak of passion. But remember, the oak cannot grow if it is not first planted. Take the effort.
At very least you can give them detailed instruction of what to do with the music and the equipment when you die do they will at least reap some financial benefit from you days of toil.
Plant the seed. See what grows.
Thanks for giving me the boost. I've been thinking about this moment in my life and it's time i put into words what has been on my mind. Chances are I will live for another 35 to 40 years since both sides of my family live a very long time, but what happens to the sweet music I have assiduously collected over the years? It's time to write out specific instructions and lessons about the music and equipment along with instructions about room treatments.
I have made a point about collecting the best of everything-wines, music, equipment, art, books, etc. My house is a living museum of superlatives. Why not take just as much effort to make sure that my nieces and nephews reap the benefit of my efforts?
Again, thank you for the spur into action.
I hope for your sake the cancer is the type that can be relatively easily defeated. Just because you have cancer doesn't mean the game is over.
I doubt any one of my three kids have an interest in preserving the system I've spent 40+ years assembling. My preference would to buy a casket big enoug for all of it and me.
They would put your ashes in the sweet spot
and then bury it all to be exhumed by some future archaeologists to unravel the mysteries of audiophilia as practiced by late information age man.
My wife would care less about any of it. My two older sons would divy it up somehow. I have 3 systems so that would be their problem. My oldest still has a Thorens 160 I gave him so he might want the 3 TTs I have and my lps. He lives in Baltimore and I'm in Atlanta so that would be a road trip with a UHaul for sure. AR 58's, Large Advents, and a pair of AR-15 bookself speakers fill it out. 2 pair of Sony 7506 headphones and my nice pair of AKG 701s.
I have a lot of recording gear so my oldest son who has some interest in that probably would take 3 mixers, 10 mics, cables, stands etc. And 3 recorders, 2 of them hirz. He would probably use most of that to set up a small recording studio at his church. My computer with all my Sony and Cirlinca software and my 32" monitor would go with him as well.
Since I teach math all my math books would be sold off Amazon as used/ I'm sure as my wife is surprised they are all still here, but why not. She keeps asking me why I don't sell them now.
Nothing I've seen or heard will compare to the music I will hear in Heaven...no jitter, no mp3s, no wow or flutter or carts to align, or drivers to refoam, and nothing I won't love.
Jim Tavegia
If the Yellowstone caldera boils over, that's when I *might* die. Otherwise, I live on...
with selling off her late husbands audio horde. she kept a pair of 57's and quad amps to listen to though
In fact I have this in my living will. I have put reasonable used resale values on each item. They can sell and divide equally. If one person wants it they can buy the other two out at the 1/3 the value for each..
I have a lot of equipment being used or sitting around...
...for the boat they'll probably buy with their inheritance.
I'm with reelsmith. My kids would probably appreciate my stereo but they'll appreciate money even more.
... I've never given it a second thought. It is not like audio systems are actually important. I don't care what my family do with any of my possessions once I'm gone. It is totally a non issue for me.
We have several audio systems throughout the house and I suspect the systems will be utilized all the same, just sans me.
Good luck with your health.
Smile
Sox
"I've never given it a second thought. It is not like audio systems are actually important. I don't care what my family do with any of my possessions once I'm gone. It is totally a non issue for me."
Ditto for me. I have told my wife to just sell everything, it's just stuff and she is happy with the little compact system I made for her. I have five working systems and three of them are rather large but it's just electronics no real emotional connection, just get rid of it.
My system is Macbook based just like my kids. He can drive it. He likes to rock Kansas on my big rig.
On the other hand, I do have an extensive collection of antique fishing tackle that my kids would have no idea what to do with, so I have left instructions on who to contact and that person has the ability to get top-dollar for it all. I've left them a second name as well, in case something should happen to the first. I've discussed this in detail with both folks. One of them has introduced me to his family as their go-to-guy should something happen to him.
Money my kids can use ...not so much old fishing stuff.
My stereos aren't worth enough to worry about and I'm in the midst of downgrading the better of the two, so it will be a complete non issue.
I think its wise to think about what family members will do with all of your stuff. I plan to leave my kids as much money and as little stuff as possible, with the exception of anything they ask me to hold onto for them.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Beautiful pic! Art- Thanks for sharing.
with all the other stuff I continuously tell her to just get rid of!
...sounds like my house.
I tell here she's a hoarder - at least compared to me.
...what to do with my audio equipment would be my family's least problem.
One heck of a downsized system! Good luck with your health issues.
I have spent less than a year's salary on my audio equipment so it's not a lot of money that my survivors cannot afford to give away. And if I spent more than a year's salary on audio equipment then shame on me, unless it was from winning the lottery.
There are a lot of more important things in life than money and the world would be better off with more charity and less collection of junk (i.e. things that are not being used).
With that said, I'm sorry you are so ill. Like you, I find music to be very therapeutic. Honestly, if it wasn't for music and my wife, I would have died decades ago.
It is very thoughtful that you went through the extra effort to preserve what brought you so much joy for the rest of your family.
I my case it isn't so much the gear but the over 10k LPs and 5k CDs that will be difficult to deal with. But my sons are up for it, music lovers like me. It's nice to know that my music will at least be appreciated by the current generation and not end up in a dumpster.
Thanks for sharing this Art. Simply due to my age I've had similar thoughts.
My family will have no clue what my system and software are worth. So I discussed this with a reliable, trusted dealer I've known for many years and he agreed to sell everything for them. Even with paying a reasonable commission the family would come out far ahead of anything they would do otherwise.
May you enjoy your system and music for as long as possible.
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
hope your passing is as smooth and peaceful as your own life seems to be.
roger wang
D-Wife has strict instructions to do one of the following-
1. Sell the gear for whatever she can get for it (software AND hardware)
2. enjoy listening to it if she wants (I'm usually the one to turn on/off everything, so who knows for sure what she'd do in this case).
In the event that both of us go at the same time, my will reflects that everything would be given to my "god-niece". She may do as she wishes then (she already is a Vinyl Lover AND is learning Bass Guitar. "Double score", I tell her!).
Dman
Analog Junkie
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