Who has the oldest speakers?

My brother still has the first speakers I bought in the mid 70s. Frasier Concertos. 10' woofer, horn mid/high, piezo super. Still works fine but they are in storage. My dad still has his original home built speakers stored away somewhere. Large reflex cabinets designed by our nieghbor to be used as end tables. WAF about 40 years ago. They use a single white 10" with "wizzer cone" made I think by Phillips. Powered by a kit built tube amp and using a turntable I have never seen before or since, they were very convincing. Unusually natural bass on everything from classical to jazz and rock including "Dark Side of the Moon" ( I remember the first time I heard it at home and how amazing it was from the very first heatbeat). As I remember they have a "free" sound you get from high efficiency speakers that made them very easy to listen to. I would like to hear them again but if they make it to my house I will have nowhere to keep them, they are pretty big.

Other than the frequency extremes, no one has bettered the QUAD 57s. Not even QUAD. In many ways, I wish I still had mine.

I have a pair of Rectilinear III's which I bought in 1969. These still function well although some of the surround foam on the midrange drivers is crumbling off.

My LaScala's are from 77' and are using all the original drivers and sound fantastic. Swapped out the wiring harness with DH Lab silver wiring, and the horns are coated with Dynamat. Other than that they're bone stock. Wouldn't trade them for anything else I've heard when paired with my SETs! Not bad for 26 year-old boxes! That Paul W. Klipsch sure knew what he was doing!

PS Crossover is original too, but I'll give the AlK version a shot when I get a chance sometime.

My Quad ESL 57's have 4-digit serial numbers and date from the early sixties.

Ever hear of Hartley's? 16 ohm / 18" woofers. Not mine though.

When I was in Viet Nam in 1968-69, I bought a pair of Pioneer CS-88s, a Pioneer receiver, a Teac reel-to-reel tape deck, and a Pioneer PL-41 turntable. I am loaning the speakers to a neighbor and they still work fine. A still have the turntable although it no longer works. Joel

I have a pair of DCM Time Windows from the late '70's. I don't use them any longer, and basically they're just taking up room, but I can't seem to put them out to pasture.

I love vintage gear...until you turn it on!

23 years. JBL 4350A Studio Monitors I bought in 1980. Can't seem to part with them.

My grandfather bought a Fisher cabinet system in the early 1960's. It's in his basement hooked up to a plain vanilla receiver and disk player.(The front end has been dead for years.) The speakers function perfectly;even by today's standards,they are not half bad.

Hey Jwrobin....are they the CS-66's??? My first pair!!!!

Gosh mine are about 6 months old and I am told that is a long time for an audiophile to keep a pair of speakers ;)

My oldest son is using a set of floorstanding Pioneers that my father brought back from a tour of duty in Korea-1965.