todd, you could always give one to me!
I have been giving pieces away to friends locally. Gave an old (well, not really, circa 1997) sony receiver to one friend whose receiver died, my extra pair of Advent Marbl's will go to another friend once the Monitor Audio's arrive. With the stuff I have lying around, I could have put together another system for the bedroom. But I don't do much listening there, so the remote controlled CD boombox I have is fine for now.
Pretty funny actually:
Friend I gave the sony receiver to:
"You sure you don't need it?"
Me: "No, I just ordered a new one."
Him: "Man, you didn't have to do that, you could have kept this one, I would've gotten one on my own."
Me: "No, it's no problem, that one really isn't up to snuff."
Him: "You mean there's something wrong with it?"
Me: "No, it's fine. Enjoy."
Him: "You mean you just ordered a new one, when this one works fine?"
Me: "Yep."
Him: perplexed look.
Not worth trying to explain, he wouldn't understand. His last housemate had a really nice pair of Mission speakers he had gotten from someone who owed him money. Ran them behind and absolute piece of crap Pioneer receiver from about 15 years ago. I told them that they should get a nice integrated amp to do the speakers justice, they looked at me like I was from Mars.
Still sitting in the garage:
Philips CDR870 standalone cd burner
Sony 3-head cassette deck
Onyko 3-head cassette deck
Pair of Cerwin Vega E208 speakers
DIY Passive Preamp I put together
Really nice Harmon Kardon turntable (cost 6 bills without the cartridge when I bought it in '86)
Probably will put one of the cassette decks and the turntable into my home office system (just need to get a phono preamp first).
-Todd