components in your system

My stereo cabinet. It is approx. 195 years older than any of the other equipment and it looks great in the corner. It is an angle sided Tansu cabinet meant to be placed under a stairway or sloping ceiling. The rest of the stuff is living (with me) on borrowed time.

Dekay, a 195 year old woodie?.............Wow that must be some equipment! Or is it the software?

albertporter: if it were software would it still be a woody? anyway, segue back to retro's question: the only thing in my "system" that is truly irreplaceable is my software, most particularly the lp's i searched for years to find. everything else will be replaced at some point or another; to borrow from david byrne, "just as it ever was, just as it ever was....."

No Albert, it's a fruit woodie, Persimmon to be exact and it's never had to take a blood presure pill in it's life/existance.

I never thought of the source material and even that (for me) has gone with time or changed format. I no longer have reel to reel tapes or 8 tracks. I don't have much vinyl left (and nothing to play it back on). We still have quite a few cassettes, much of which never made it to CD as far as I can tell, but I have considered renting some pro gear and transferring (burning) them to CD. The only things that I have ever owned more than twelve years were a pair of Mac 30's that I would gladly take back today and a Quad 303/33/FM3 set up that I was partial to, so I guess that they (the Mac's) would have survived ownership had my judgment and foresight been a little keener fifteen years ago. Wouldn't mind having my LS3/5a's back either. Only the music from some source or another seems to survive out of necessity.