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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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lacee
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A 1961 Bell tube integrated amp.It has the original 4 RCA 6V6 power tubes and 4 Telefunken 12AX7.
It has those terrible 8 and 16 0hm small screw speaker connectors.It has a mm phono stage, never been modded and works flawlessy.It spends it's time powering Mission 770(late70's) speakers and a Pioneer TX 8500 11 tuner.
About 16-20 watts of fun.
lacee
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1959 Electrohome PA 100MK1 mono amp.
Partridge transformer,tube rectified, chokes and 39 pounds of Williamson design, and about 10 watts of power.

The amp is not a Public Address amp.
It came inside a console box and was the "companion" to another box that held the pre and rest of the system.

Now the oldest piece of gear in my system are my 60 year old ears.
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