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What "Audio Related" item were you GIFTED?

My AR XA w/Pickering cart was given to me by the maint worker at work ...I have replaced the cart.. he remembered I liked stereo etc, and called me to say he found a piece of stereo equipment in a closet while he was doing a renovation .. .. little did I know it was a stock XA - same model I had so many moons ago !
 
A friend gave me a never used AT-LP120USB TT. He had lost track of the cartridge, power brick, cuing light, and 45 adapter, so I bought some, and of course, two weeks later he informed me that he found the missing parts and is mailing them to me. I bought two headshells and two cartridges, one with elliptical stylus for LPs and a mono cartridge with a 3 mil conical stylus to play 78s. Now I'm going to have an extra cartridge and headshell.
 
A good friend at work, now may he RIP, gifted me with two Nak cassette decks, a DR1 and a DR2; both worked excellently for several years, but alas now both need belts.

Another friend, very much alive, gifted me a pair of B & O M75's, and although they needed work (done excellently by our @baco99 ), I consider them my end-game speakers.

Most recently, a friend gave me his parents' Dual 1218 turntable. Due to our current house renovations, I have had neither the time nor room to try her out, though I suspect will need new Grado stylus...
 
In the last six months my older brother has downsized. He gave me back a Pioneer SX-980 and HPM 100s I gave him for Christmas fifteen years ago. He also gave me his garage speakers..HPM 100 and Klipsch KG.4. The Pioneer gear was sold. I've been through it and no longer desire to own it.
 
My brother is gifting me his Dyna SCA-35, that has been in dry storage, in the original box, for 25+ years... going to be a great winter project
 
Back in the early 90s my brother gave me the bulk of his LPs as he was no longer listening to them and I was glad to take them off of his hands. At that time I might well have been the only person he knew that was still listening to vinyl, lol.

I made it up to him not long afterwards. As vintage hifi gear was so cheap back then I bought a few different Marantz receivers, including a 2226 like the one my brother bought new when we were in high school. I had the 2226 professionally restored and found a nice Marantz wooden case for it, then I gave it to my brother to replace his long gone example. The only difference was that I bought the standard wooden case, while back in the day my brother’s 2226 had the Marantz 3-piece wooden case (anybody here remember those?). My brother did hang onto his old Pioneer turntable (a PL-50). So after a few more years I had that restored for him as well as he had kept a number of his LPs that were sentimental favorites and was interested in listening to them again.

While he was pretty happy about the hifi gear, I think it meant more to him when I surprised him with my restored 1964 Fender Vibro-Champ amp. Just like the Marantz gear, I picked the Fender up for cheap (a coworker sold it to me back in the 1980s for $50). And just like the vintage Marantz gear, that little Fender amp is worth far, far more today.
 
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