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What's the oldest piece of gear in your system?

This site is here for the buying and selling of Audio equipment. This causes me to wonder if most of us have relatively new equipment. If most of it is new, what is the oldest piece of equipment still in use, and why are you still using it?

My oldest piece is a Sota Star Sapphire, but it has been upgraded. It was originally purchased as a Sapphire in the 80's, but was upgraded to a Star Sapphire about two or three years ago.

What's your story?
128x128nrchy
clueless
763 posts
 
How bout in a system?

I think it would be a Harmon Kardon Citation V amp. It has had some remodeling though. Going on 50 years. Even older than my ears.

I remain,
ed_sawyer
588 posts
 
I regularly use tubes from the 1920s... globe 10s, WE301A rectifiers, vintage 845s from the 20s, 30s, 40s. Probably the earliest is late 1920s for some Globe 10s, though some of the globe 866s date from around then too. All working great, used daily, doing what they were designed to do, 80+ years later. Gotta love it.

-Ed
jwmazur
191 posts
 
My Great American Sound Thaedra and Ampzilla II. They are vintage 1977.
mitch2
4,007 posts
 
my listening room - 1956
dogeatpuppy
96 posts
 
Happily received a Yamaha CT 1010 TODAY...grd 9 for the low price of $37.78

replacing a sansui 517
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