The longest you have owned any gear?

I purchased a Sansui QRX-6500 "Quad" receiver for $512.00 in 1973.  Was my main receiver until 1987.  After that it was my garage sound system receiver until 1997.  24 years....a beast of a receiver and beautiful too!!

g_nakamoto: I could not afford the Bose 901's (as I recall) but in 1973 I did buy a Sansui QRX-6500 4-Channel receiver.  I remember that I bought it in the Navy Exchange overseas (at a nice discount) for exactly $512.00.  In 2018 dollars that is right around $3000.00.  My young wife was stunned!  To go with it, I bought four huge Sansui SP-3500 speakers.  Kept them for about 20 years and then sold them to my brother in law.