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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?
128x128nrchy
musicpod
192 posts
 
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.
jazzgramps
1 posts
 
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.
sofa_lofa
5 posts
 
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)
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davvie
81 posts
 
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.
rwalker25
16 posts
 
Well, i can say the oldest pieces on my gear are my vintage Pioneer hp's. They have more than 20 yrs.
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