As we say down here...what's time to a hog?  And anyways, I wake up ever mornin in a brand new world.

I went the Adat way with a Soundtracs Topaz 8 mixer when the money was there. Now I have 3 of them and a BRC staring at me all the time as if to say, " Gosh, how come you don't want to play with us anymore?" I invested in the famous Adat Edit card so I could shuttle my audio recordings to the computer to edit and master. The next jump was to a MOTU 24io with the PCI card. Then the mixer disappeared!! Everything went to the box! Then there is the computer upgrades and on and on etc...............
Holy Crap! Maybe I ought to dig out those 2 cassette decks and the Radio Shack mixer. Seems like it was easier then! LOL!!!

Sidroe,
 
Feel the pain...
 
Got 30k worth of hardware crap that is totally obsolete in this day and age. Literally rusting away in the salt air here on the ocean. Even destroys the antique value. My Juno 6 metal grill disintegrating with mold and rust. Juno whatever else and Prophet real 2D floppy, Boss and Roland hardware modules going south... Have all the Proteus racks at $900 apiece behind glass. Korg and Casio boxes about okay for museum pieces.
 
Always was getting laid off and fired as an aircraft mechanic. Biggest obstacle was to load up and drag artifacts of receding technology across the country and back. Took up a whole room, so had to get a more expensive appartment to house the antiques.
 
Was sweating over the VHS ADAT but never bit for the 4K price tag. Was so cool at the time and 8 tracks.
 
Crystal ball could have saved me a lot of money and grief for the family.
 
John
 
...edited because still can't friggin' spelll nothing right...

Ah, John, the old days! Simpler times when our best friends were Opie and Beaver!!!! I notice that anyone that mentions they have thousands of dollars of old gear laying around in the way never say they want to sell anything, myself included. There's just something about having that gear around that makes us all feel secure, I guess!! (or just not wanting to admit we threw away a lot of money).

Sid,
 
You nailed it.
 
Would not sell a piece of rust in the museum. Still got an MMT8 midi sequencer on display. Somehow makes the downstairs look more full.  I don't fire up the patriarchs but every several years or so to see if rust or failed lithium battery has taken them down.
 
Even have the DCB conversion box for Roland DCB to midi. Terrible piece of hardware, and a big defeat for Roland when they bet that DCB protocol would kill midi out of the market. Can still get the Juno 6 to stutter midi commands. The box gathering rust also, but at this rate, will outlast me.
 
Useless, but sure look cool to non musical guests.
 
John

The dark years of 2008-2011 (for me at least)of my Chapter 7 and all that I sold to stay afloat and attempts to keep the house, really cleaned out my gear!
Now however, it's a clean slate, and I have been selling off everything I don't use, for whatever I think I will. It actually seems like a really good thing.....now, though there are lots of pieces I would love to buy back or find "replacements" for, like my Taylor 514ce, and 1979 D28, U87,  Wurly 140a, ....and old Fender amps....to say nothing of the 34 guitars I'd collected over the previous 4 decades. Uh oh, I'd better stop here! LOL
Michael

Just had a listen to a demo of the new acoustic simulator pedal, what does everyone think of that? I thought the top end sounded passable but the low end sounded all wrong....anyway might be nice as an effect in itself, without necessarily being a replacement for an acoustic. 

Pentimento, my heart goes out to you. I have, thankfully, only had to sell a few things out of necessity over the years and it is a heartbreaking experience. But, look at the bright side! It created a necessity to buy more stuff!!! Hee-Hee

I have pre-ordered A4 and still really like A3, but I prefer S-gear for my main amp sim. Hopefully A4's cabinets, speakers and new rooms will narrow the gap.

Thanks Sid. I do think of it that way and am appreciative of the more refined choices I've made. 15 years ago I was still buying things to impress or get clients. Now I buy things that suit me well. It's working out very well.
Michael