I'm surprised how quickly I got that task done.
One of the few things I had planned for post-retirement was de-fuckifying my office closet. Over the past two years it became a catch-all for anything I didn't want to deal with, and among the things I didn't want to deal with were the two Kenwood receivers I once waxed poetic over and the Yamaha amp and CD player that were rotated out of my audio setup.
They were already boxed up and ready to eBay, but I kept putting it off for a variety of reasons: they needed to be unboxed and photographed, the auctions needed to be created, yada, yada, yada. It was always some excuse.
So jumping the gun a bit, about six weeks ago I decided to get the process started, and one weekend I removed them from the closet, unboxed them, and photographed everything. The next day I posted it all on eBay.
One receiver sold within 72 hours. The second followed a few days later. I was kind of surprised, actually. I also offloaded a spare turntable dustcover almost immediately. The CD player went about two weeks ago, and today, the Yamaha amp finally sold. Everything was at a slight loss from what I'd hoped to get, but I didn't do this to make money; it was simply to get the stuff out of here and into the hands of someone else who would appreciate them as much as I have.
Next up on the auction block is the Yamaha T-1 tuner I got a little over a year ago. It's an absolutely stellar tuner; an item I lusted after when I was a teenager, haunting the showrooms of Jerry's Audio, but it's been sitting virtually unused all this time. I was happy to finally get one, but I haven't used it more than couple dozen times since purchasing it and for all intents it was just gathering dust. And my anal retentive self also didn't appreciate the fact that the black anodized finish didn't match the the Yamaha amp I'd paired it with (the tuner and amp series were about half a decade apart, so it's understandable stuff changed) so it was pretty easy to let it go. It also helps that I just picked up one of the tuners that came out at the same time as the amp for a song. I guess no one is really listening to radio any more, but I do want to have one on hand in the case of some emergency.