What's the oldest piece of gear in your system?

Happy New Year! (to me)

January 01/2011 my friend gave me a spare Garrard for parts. No parts table here - it was a grey hammertone Garrard 301 in strong 7/10ths condition. Very old serial #2074. This came from his brother's music store in Ft. McMurray Ab. I sold a mint hammerite earlier this year and I hated to see it go. Thought I would never own one again. What a great gift from a very good friend. Call it Karma, or whatever - but I have to smile when I think about how this table came to me.

As an aside, I lost all of my old Garrard articles in a computer crash. One such article dated Garrards by their serial numbers. I lost many other documents of historical interest. If you have some of this information kicking around, would you please forward it to my Audiogon account. Thanks to all and have a great New Year!

A Sansui FR-D25 direct drive TT, at 30 years or more in my system. It outlasted the receiver and cassette deck that I had with it at one time.

Next would be a Yamaha dual cassette deck at about 15 years.

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.

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)

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.