What do you have and how much is it worth to you... Let's just see what's floating around this group.

Most valuable to me is...a pair of Marantz Imperial 6's and an Onkyo A7055 integrated. It' s a match made in heaven; good treble that doesn't burn my ears. Maybe due to a little aging in the components tailoring the frequency response? Who knows? Who cares? It's vintage, after all, it's supposed to age.

The missing piece was put in place when I got my old Thorens TD-110 with an Audio Technica 13 L cartridge fired up. That linear contact stylus was magic. Later, the AT 13 was replaced with a similar AT-440MLa

This was long after I'd tried the onwards and upwards approach, ending with an Onkyo A-7 and Polk Model 10's (before they were renamed Monitor 10's, BTW), plus the Thorens. I was never satisfied with it. All are still in the collection.

Now I have a whole zoo. There are the speakers; the Dynaco A-50's, which gave such a compelling rendition of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony; the KLH 23's, whose bass is not as good as the Dynacos'; the EPI 100's that were my first refoaming project; the Boston Acoustics A-40's that I bought for my mother back in the '80's; the Avid 100's I bought in my onwards and upwards phase, and a nitwit sister put a little smash in the sides; the Avid 102's from Craigslist; the JBL 100's from a yardsale. Those I would play through a Pioneer SA-9500 in parallel with the Imperial 6's. The Grateful Dead's Live at the Cow Palace would come alive with that combination. The L 100's would provide the gut thumping that concert required.

Philips 475 speakers; nice but a little harsh. Same for the Advent/1's, also a refoam project. The unfortunate AR-2ax's which are horribly nasal, and a tweeter replacement didn't fix. The nice old Dynaco A-25's that need re-veneering. Oh, yeah, and Dynaco A-35's I picked up at an auction that I lost. But it was part of a lot, and the guy who won was far more interested in the other pieces, so he sold the Dynacos to me for a really good price.

And...the Fisher XP-7's that at first were a disaster, but an Advent fried-egg tweeter turned into a sometimes wonderful, but low-pitched system. Sometimes I have to place them well away from a wall to avoid boomy bass.

That's just speakers. Electronics? My new daily driver, an Eico ST-70, with the electrolytic capacitors replaced, and sooner or later the resistors, Hitachi SR-8010 that at one time I was really enthusiastic about (I bought a second off eBay); Sony STR 7055; Adcom GFA 545 and Hafler DH-100 - the DH-100 I found in an antique store for $15; Fisher 500-T that needed a couple 1 uF caps in the tone control board; Pioneer SX-636; Scott 383 receiver. Some black plastic workhorses, a Technics and an Onkyo.

Oh, and that leaves turntables: Pioneer PL 510, Philips GA-312, Technics SL-D2, Miracord/Realistic 46 for the family 78's, under-the-radar Sony PS-LX2.

Cassette decks, even? A Denon and a Sony, and a couple Teacs.

Digital - CD and DVD? The grand old Toshiba SD-3960, two of 'em, on their last legs. A couple Sonys, an Onkyo and Denon multi discs.

Add a Technics 12 band graphic equalizer to the mix.

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