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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.

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mapman
22,460 posts
 
Yeah, other than my ears, the Linn Axis table.

I bought it back in the 80s to avoid having to replace all my albums with CDs. Still going strong. A fantastic investment.
rodman99999
6,188 posts
 
The TungSol round plate 6SN7GT and tall bottle Sylvania 6SN7W tubes, used as phase splitters and drivers in my Cary monoblocks, were manufactured in the early 1940's.
ebm
9,311 posts
 
MY ROWLAND 8T POWER AMP still a wonderful Sounding amp.
samhar
1,048 posts
 
2002........ Basis Audio 2500 plinth and platter with an upgraded Vector 3 arm and Signature motor.
1965......... McIntosh MR-71 FM tuner not officially in the system .....yet
armyscout41
64 posts
 
The oldest piece in my system is the carver c-4000 preamp, 1.5t and m-400 amps including c-9 sonic holography, all made in 1980-1981 era!
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