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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?
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slappy
903 posts
 
I think with excpetion of the cd player and cables, it is all older than me.

hahahaha
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timo
610 posts
 
My oldest piece of gear is a Nakamichi LX-5 3-head stereo cassette deck circa 1982. And Antmo, I too had a Pioneer TX-9500II stereo tuner which my parents now have and still use. It is a great sounding tuner.
consttraveler
250 posts
 
The oldest is a Thorens TD-520 TT, late 70's I think.
sdcampbell
2,136 posts
 
My VPI-HW19 Mk4 turntable, which was originally purchased as a Mk2 version in the late 1980's.
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jond
5,859 posts
 
Wow,
This is kind of embarassing, I guess it's my Rega Planar 3 which I've had for 3 1/2 years. But I'm pretty young and that's when I first got into this, prior to that I just had a proccesion of boom boxes.
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