One part of a room in my house is sort of an Audio Graveyard. . . . Components that have either died through malfunction or have become dormant with disuse.
I've got a great Philips cassette deck in there that I discovered doesn't QUITE turn at the correct speed. SO I can play tapes I recorded on it, but not other tapes. . . and tapes recorded on it aren't quite right on other tape decks and vice versa. It sounds good and works flawlessly otherwise!
I've got a Proton preamp that has one blown channel. In the midst of figuring out who to get to repair that I bought the 1959 EICO integrated amplifier that I used for a few years. . . .
The EICO amp now resides there too. It has a problem, I've dealt all the tubes out to other uses, it's just an old friend taking a long rest.
The companion Proton power amp (50 watt per channel with "power envelope," really a clean powerful amp) only gets used now and then. It doesn't have the tube magic, that's its major failing, it's a fine amp otherwise.
There is a really heavy well-built pair of Knight Audio speakers that are functionally perfect. . . . Sound a little dry for my tastes and need quite a bit of power to get them up and moving.
These probably sound really good with the Knight Audio early transistor integrated amp they came with, which is probably tubby on other speakers. I've never powered that up; I don't have the right sort of speaker wire terminations to use with it, looks sort of as if they need a banana plug sort of dual set up. Inherited this from my wife's aunt along with a B&O system; put the B&O to use and this Knight Audio amp is in the graveyard.
I've got a really nice Cambridge Audio CD-One transport that is made to clock-slave to the Cambridge Audio Magic One DAC that it sits on. . . . The DAC has one blown channel. I bought the Dynaco cd player I used for some time when that channel blew and I've never fixed it. The transport works really well BUT it seems without the clock connected to the DAC it doesn't put out track information! So it isn't any good for me for use as a transport to feed my HHB Burner.
I have one of the very first one-bit cd players, a Harmon Kardon, that still works though it has become finicky about cdrs. This is such a nice all around smooth and warm player that I just keep it in the graveyard. . . just in case, right?
Also there's a PS Audio CD-1 cd player, "the first audiophile cd player built" if you believe them, that I bought off ebay on a lark. It said it didn't quite work. That's true. If you put in a cd it gives an error message as soon as it reads the contents. Haven't looked in to having that repaired. It's a heavy impressive piece of machinary!
There's a Dual tuner that used to work fine but last time I tried it. . . it didn't! Which just reinforced my opinion that I didn't need a tuner!
There are a few other items as well. I bet I'm not the ONLY one with this "graveyard." Sometimes. . . I hear the pieces wail quietly in the night. . . . B-)