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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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jazzgramps
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I have an early model Empire turntable, made by Dyna- Empire of Garden City, NY, in early 1961. It still works great! I also have a pair of AR (Acoustic Research) 2A speakers that still sound pretty good.
sofa_lofa
5 posts
 
hi guys,
newbie from uk,
dipping my toe in the water after 15 years of hifi abstinence,

oldest item is a thorens td124 mk2 with an sme arm (1966 i believe),
nowadays equipment is made by accountants not engineers!

my old listening room was built in 1672, but now i live in a 'modern' house (1895)
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davvie
82 posts
 
I Use a McIntosh MR-71 tube FM tuner that dates from 1968...
Its been worked on a couple of times and sounds very nice.
They don't make them like this ..anymore.
rwalker25
16 posts
 
Well, i can say the oldest pieces on my gear are my vintage Pioneer hp's. They have more than 20 yrs.
stanman
18 posts
 
All my equip is vintage. But how bout 1979ish DBX 3BX expander.1980 ess eclipse M102 (hiel tweeter) speakers.also 1983 polk RTA 12Bs speakers.an old think 90's parasound HCA 1200 amp.benched @ 286w @ 8 olms I estamite around 400w @ 4 olms
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