Your oldest gear?

My first entry to the Audiogon forum and it is about how old my equipment remains in service!  I have my Pioneer SA-8500 hooked up a Thorens TD 145 with an Ortofon Super MC10 cartridge.  I also have a Wollensak 4765 cassette deck which needs service.  I also really like my (not as old) Kyocera R661 and DA-610 pieces for both their looks as well as their sound.  I also still use the original Denon receiver, the DRA-600 and the original Pioneer multi-CD, the PD-M6.  Sometimes I still get my Sansui Au-717 out to play.  None of this is elite equipment, but it was all I could afford in my earlier decades and now my hearing no longer validates spending a lot on newer and better stereo equipment.  Still enjoying music as often as I can.

A short list:

My dad's Admiral console from 1955.  Yes, the words "Admiral" and "console" are not included in the list of Hifi royalty from the ages, but this one could PARTY with 12" 4-way dual cabinet, dual mono amps.  My dad enjoyed a wide variety of music.  I remember sitting on the wooden floor and resonating with the bass turned up during Ina Gadda da Vita (baby) as a teenager.  Pullled the unit from storage many years ago and got it working about 5 years ago.  The drivers are "tired" after this many years, but vibrate and make music.

1958 Klipschorn (mono).  A customer just acquired this as at an estate sale and had more use for a pair of good bookshelf speakers.  I traded this (and the item below) for a set of bookshelf speakers that retailed for $1,200 a pair.  I have verified that it has the correct drivers installed.  Currently stored in my "loft" along with "too much stuff" from a variety of electronics.  Sounded "musical" the last time I fired it up.

1960 Klipsch Small Horn.  Acquired along with the above item.  I didn't know this speaker existed until it showed up at my doorstep.  Cute little K'Horn. Works.

1961 "Best for Beatles Music" Wharfdale W60s:  We "fix" stereo gear and I was (again) approached by an old customer who had purchased a pair of "working" Wharfdales at an estate sale, only to discover one tweeter was blown.  He just set them aside in storage. He offered to give them to me, but I wanted to make sure he recovered his investment ($80) and took them in not knowing what they were, or their condition.  While researching the speaker in the search for a working original tweeter, I discovered the claim that these were "best for Beatles music."  It seems that the drivers in the amp/speakers that the Beatles used on stage were similar to the drivers used in the W60s.  Thus the claim that the Wharfdales came closer to reproducing the sound of the Beatle's live performances in the early 60's than any other speakers. They are in beautiful condition.  Not for sale.

Pioneer CTF-9191

Pioneer RT-707

McIntosh MR65

Yes.

Vandersteen 2ce's bought on October 26, 1994. Still sound great.