Do you save the boxes and packing material for your audio equipment?

[raif71]

Keep them all.

 

[jayapple]

I will keep it. Especially when selling the equipment, the current DACs and AMPs are getting smaller and smaller, and the boxes won't take up much space.

But for floor-standing speakers, it might be a bit tricky. The boxes are too large, similar to an electric refrigerator. They cannot be kept. If we need to move, this would definitely be a disaster. No moving company would dare to handle these huge items.

 

[eric-c]

I keep them for resale as mentioned previously. Also when I cycle out equipment (rarely) and when I want to keep the item(s) being moved out, I have a great way of storing the unused equipment. I did this a few years ago when I went with active speakers. I wanted to keep my bryston power amps. Few years later I did end up selling the power amps.

 

[AaronJ]

I keep them. Then my wife un-keeps them.

 

[raif71]

I keep them. Then my wife un-keeps them.

Yes, mine keeps complaining from time to time but the boxes are still there. WAF is against our wishes.

 

[respice finem]

Ridiculously I do keep my recent purchases and boxes around. It takes more than a half room that I call storage room. Not sure why because I will never sell any of that.

I am planning to do a "boxes audit" at some point, to get rid of those which I won't be using any more.
But so far, much too lazy...

 

[respice finem]

I will keep it. Especially when selling the equipment, the current DACs and AMPs are getting smaller and smaller, and the boxes won't take up much space.

But for floor-standing speakers, it might be a bit tricky. The boxes are too large, similar to an electric refrigerator. They cannot be kept. If we need to move, this would definitely be a disaster. No moving company would dare to handle these huge items.

OTOH, in case of active speakers you might need these boxes one day, to send them for repair. That's why I'm keeping mine.

That said, I had an attic full of boxes and stuff in my previous house, and then ended up selling the house "as is", complete with furniture and Hi-Fi and all.
Told the buyer he might have to throw away some stuff, he didn't even look at it. Such sale is rather unusual in Germany, but he needed a house ASAP, so I could move without needing a moving company or even renting a "Sprinter" for it.

 

[A Cute Earring]

I keep them all. Except once when I moved “permanently” about 15 years ago. I regretted it as I’ve moved permanently 3 times since then.

 

[OldHvyMec]

Always save the boxes. I have a few McIntosh boxes, well over 50 years old. It adds a considerable amount to the resale of a diehard fan. TV, monitors, computers and cookware not so much unless it's silverware still in the wooden storage cabinet. The wife made a good amount of money just messing around with that alone before being offered a great deal for the whole lot. She tripled her investment just because of the wooden storage boxes. 17K from a little over 4k of looking and collecting. It all fit in the back of a PU truck. 2014 or 15.

I just bought some Fosi equipment, and I'm keeping all 5 boxes. If it wasn't for the great packing, ONE would have surely been ruined. Crushed the whole corner with zero damage to one of the ZA3s.

Regards

 

[Thighsofsteel]

I keep my packaging for 6 months in case there is a failure as most occur within that time. Then off to the recycling with it.

 

[Hayabusa]

I keep all the

 

[Oddball]

I will keep it. Especially when selling the equipment, the current DACs and AMPs are getting smaller and smaller, and the boxes won't take up much space.

But for floor-standing speakers, it might be a bit tricky. The boxes are too large, similar to an electric refrigerator. They cannot be kept. If we need to move, this would definitely be a disaster. No moving company would dare to handle these huge items.

I did have good experience with moving from Riyadh to Dubai. The moving guys were real pros and boxed up my entire HT into original boxes I kept including 83" Sony OLED and 2 70kg subs. It did take a lot of time, but all ended up better than expected. By advice from Sony installers, I did custom crate for the TV as otherwise would not survive. They ship them on large pallets 5 or 6 tied together and that's what keeps them safe. Single one would be at risk just using the original box.

 

[Mart68]

I rarely sell but if I do I like to present the buyer with something that is as close to possible to new. All external and internal packaging, remote, paperwork and everything meticulously cleaned before it's repackaged.

I sold some B&W speakers to a mate for a nominal sum. Took them round and we were halfway through unboxing when his lady got home from work. She went nuts about him buying 'expensive' speakers. We tried to explain he'd bought them off me for next to nothing but she wasn't having it. 'You must think I'm a fool! They're clearly brand new! This one's still in the polythene wrapping for God's sake!'

It got heated so I slipped quietly away.

 

[JayGilb]

I only buy used gear, so no original boxes.
Most of my gear arrives in repurposed boxes which are broken down and immediately recycled.

 

[Oddball]

I rarely sell but if I do I like to present the buyer with something that is as close to possible to new. All external and internal packaging, remote, paperwork and everything meticulously cleaned before it's repackaged.

I sold some B&W speakers to a mate for a nominal sum. Took them round and we were halfway through unboxing when his lady got home from work. She went nuts about him buying 'expensive' speakers. We tried to explain he'd bought them off me for next to nothing but she wasn't having it. 'You must think I'm a fool! They're clearly brand new! This one's still in the polythene wrapping for God's sake!'

It got heated so I slipped quietly away.

Agreed - girls can often get carried away. 2 years ago when I bought new LR towers was accused of spending 7X as much as I did. Not that I need to square my bills with the misses but I did as the wanted to make sure how way off she was.

 

[eric-c]

Also, I keep the original manuals in the original boxes and accessories (remotes, mounts, rack mount ears, detachable power cables if I use longer ones etc) or shipping pieces. Some CD players have plastic shipping locks so the transport / laser doesn't move around.

 

[Balle Clorin]

I have most of my boxes, that is for my speakers, pre amp, power amp, DAC and turntable , tone arm, cartridges . Small bokses like riaa and streamer I got rid of, they will fit in any shoe box…

 

[jhaider]

Ask me a couple months ago and the answer was unambiguous yes. However, we recently moved into a house with much less raw space for storage. So the only boxes kept were ones for gear I’m currently cataloging for sale, and two AVPs (JBL Synthesis SDP-55 and Arcam AV41) I’m thinking of sellIng based on Dirac ART rollout, given low expectations that Samsung will do the right thing here. (OTOH, the day I shipped my old JBL Intonato24, Samsung released proper macOS software for it, so…)

 

[Oddball]

I do think that this whole ART thing has drove us mad. Like dating for 5 years but never really getting to the point.

D&M is about to make the point for the broader consumer public, but then there is the whole point of how much better it gets and for whom.

We even save our boxes so can participate in ART .

 

[PatentLawyer]

When we moved primary homes, I was so happy to have saved my original packing. It allowed me to trust the movers to move a lot of equipment that I'd otherwise would have had to move myself. Everything survived perfectly. And same goes when I just want relocate equipment. Very handy to have the right packaging.