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Still happily using vintage gear?

I was sitting listening to my main system consisting of an Audio Research SP8 preamp, NYAL Moscode 600 Maxi, Vandersteen 5 speakers, Thorens TD126MkIII with Sumiko Blue Point, VPI HW16, and was completely satisfied, again, with the experience. (Kimber 12TC, Morrow, Straightwire, AQ and Furman accessories)
All the equipment has been well cared for and kept in good repair: caps replaced, TT overhauled etc.
But it has an average age of about 30 years!
I love reading about all the latest gear, and lust after some of it dearly, but... I'm satisfied with what I have.
I'm playing with digital and having my fun with that, but I was wondering:
Is anyone else still happy with equipment that is now considered "vintage"?
(I don't think of it as "vintage", I just think of it as long-lasting!)
So... what's the oldest piece in your rig?
Mine is the Moscode. 40 years young.

fredapplegate
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docnice
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 Most of my 2 channel set up is from the 90's, with some older and newer pieces here and there. 

It consists of a Parasound PH-850 Preamp and Parasound HCA-806 Amplifier. A California Audio Labs Icon MKii CD player, Magnum Dynalab Etude tuner, Empire Troubador 598 turntable.......my youngest piece is a Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 which I connect my laptop computer to. This is all played through Snell E.5 mk2 tower speakers using MTI bi wire speaker cables. 

Cheers!

This old system brings me great joy!!!! I've enjoyed reading about fellow audio enthusiasts vintage systems on this thread!

 

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mahgister
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Save if you invest in very highly advanced engineering H-Fi , vintage may be the best  S.Q. /price ratio possible...

It was for my speakers and for my amplifier...

Cost ridiculously low...

S.Q. ridiculously high...

One of the better amplifier in the world in 1978 cannot be bad today... Only very good... Not the best there is now for sure,  but who want the best anyway? Someone with a deep pocket....

And S.Q. anyway is more related to "acoustic and psycho-acoustic intelligence" than to ONLY engineering per se...

 

 

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limomangus
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Let's see my Sony Str 7065 ,Large Advents,AR Xa1 with Sure cart.

audition__audio
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I think certain types of vintage gear age well and others horribly. 

belyin
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I have a lot of real vintage gear in need of service (Scott and Fisher tube amps, a Citation I preamp,) but of what I use day-to-day, my most vintage are my tuners--a McIntosh MR-78 and a Pioneer TX-9500 II--and my Technics SP10 MKII which are all from the 70's. My cd player is an Anthem CD1 from 1998 which feels like yesterday to me, but some may consider vintage. And my preamp (James Burgess build of the JE Laps full function preamp) and amp (Fi Super X) use tubes from the 30's, 40's, and 50's.
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