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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.

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dwayne45
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Just scored a sansui qr 1500 quad receiver from a thrift store $29.00
hevac1
812 posts
 
My PS300 & some of my interconnects.
kingmacaw
46 posts
 
my j.a.michell hydraulic reference turntable w/fluid arm & my original 1st edition win strain uage cartridge(over 30 years old). i also run L09 300 watt kenwood monolocks thru my Maggie IIIa's upgraded o 3.5's w/o the different crossover. my second table is a DD pioneer pl530 w/auto liftoff, litz arm wires & denon carbon fiber headshell housing a signet tk7e cartridge. all items sounding wonderful & still in spared use. oh yes, also running a magus mfa preamp + cal audio tercet III cd player.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Kingmacaw, ah the memories! I had all of these components except the Pioneer tt. But I had the Win tt later.
dr_joe
160 posts
 
Three Technics SP-10MKII turntables, all dating from somewhere between late 1970s and early 1980s.

A Grace 707-II tonearm dating from early 1980s.

A Signet XK50 tonearm (early 1980s).

Meitner PA6i preamp and MTR101 mono amps, all from circa 1988-92, but rebuilt by manufacturer between 2004-2008.

Tuners from the 1980s: Perreaux TU3, Luxman T117, Onkyo T9090-II.

Quad 520f power amp (late 1980s).
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