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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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.
My VPI-HW19 Mk4 turntable, which was originally purchased as a Mk2 version in the late 1980's.
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.
I bought a Jeff Rowland Model 5 amp and the matching Consummate pre-amp back in 1996 which were about the last ''runs'' of these products and still have them. Yes, I have listened to the new Rowland products and they are fantastic but, I prefer the sound of his older products. And you want to know what the best thing about a Rowland products is ......is when they are paid off !!!! It took me nearly three years to pay the both of them off. I also don't have the 7 year itch to get rid of them......