[PKing51]

My Hi-Fi introduction: dad got a Bogen RR501 Receiver, Garrard record changer and Electro Voice Aristocrat horn-loaded corner speaker. Early memory: Cranking that up and bellowing out songs to “My Fair Lady” – ‘till I got busted. That was ’56. I was 5. My chin came up just above the cabinet. Fast forward 12 years (and long hours of listening pleasure later), for Christmas, Santa give a Heathkit AA-21D to build. That, a new a pair of 12” Utah “bookshelfs,” an Empire 808 cartridge, and I finally had stereo – years of listening through college etc. Fast forward again, 56 years, and the hours of listening have segued into hours of watching YouTube. It’s better than a talking encyclopedia – on just about any subject you can imagine – from Seymour Cray to pump harmonium. Mind-food for the curious.

Question is: What should I do with the Van Alstine signal chain I assembled in middle age? Longhorn Grado & Hafler SE-130 Tuner into his Dyanco PAT-5 & Omega III 240. I just don’t use these anymore, but I can’t bring myself to cart them down to GoodWill where whoever gets them won’t appreciate what they have. 

[WGH]

Welcome to AC. There are plenty of audiophiles with very small budgets here. All your items can be given away in the Karma Circle. Many use the "pick-a-number" system so the early bird doesn't always get the worm.
You set the rules. Pickup only? Write a short essay why you are the most deserving? Almost anything goes.
https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?board=43.0

Or sell the items for pocket change in the Trading Post.
https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?board=109.0

You will need to have 3 posts but that part is easy.

[Phil A]

Welcome to AC!

[FullRangeMan]

Welcome to AC 
Aristocrats used Alnico 5 woofers to great sound.
https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/Aristocrat,%20I,%20II,%20and%20III%20EDS.pdf

[ArthurDent]

Greetings & Welcome to AC   

[kd4ylq]

PKing51,
              welcome to the Circle! Maybe being from the same age cohort explains this: I too cut my teeth on music (that I was given or loaned) such as My Fair Lady i.e. lots of musicals and orchestral. I asked for Peter Paul and Mary and some other folk music got that too later. Was fortunate to be given a hand me down console stereo (with an outboard speaker) from a most generous friend of my mom's. It had tubes and a Collaro turntable as I recall and sounded just fabulous! - a really big upgrade from my pocket transistor radio with an external tube-loaded extension speaker. It also could play the 45's I started to buy with the money from my first (underage/illegal) jobs. From very humble beginnings the love of "Hifi" music emerged and grew for the rest of my life, with lots of live music and instruction along the way. I think that your still excellent mid-life stereo system would be very much appreciated by a young newbie - do unto someone else, and to use the hackneyed phrase "pay it forward" you'll both glow from the act of generosity. It'll be worth the effort on your part I am quite sure.

[rlwhalen]

At least you don't have hundreds of old LPs as I do. I have done my best to store them carefully, and ever so often I think about getting a new turntable since I sold my Linn LP12 many years ago. The convenience of digital sources and wireless bluetooth connections is too much to give up.

[richidoo]

Fast forward again, 56 years, and the hours of listening have segued into hours of watching YouTube. It’s better than a talking encyclopedia – on just about any subject you can imagine – from Seymour Cray to pump harmonium. Mind-food for the curious.

Video Killed The Radio Star

Welcome to AudioCircle, PKing!