Your oldest gear?


What’s the oldest piece of equipment in your system? 
 

What piece of equipment have you owned the longest? 

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I have 2 complete systems and then some additional kit.  But I guess the oldest would be a pair of Rectilinear XIa speakers that I think date to 1974.  Rectilinear was Duke Ellington’s favorite speakers but I believe he liked versions from the late 1960s. The company decided it was missing out competing with the likes of Henry Kloss so they decided to design and build a 2-way.  The woofer is sourced from CTS (Chicago Telephone and Supply).  The tweeter is a relatively inexpensive cone of about 3 inches.  On paper, one would think they would stink.  They don’t.  On side 4 of "Skull and Roses" Grateful Dead one would think they are at Gaelic Park circa 1971.  Now please, don’t think I don’t have some higher aspirations such as I own a Linn Sondek LP12.  But I sort of buy into Ivor Tiffenbrun’s theory that if you only have so much to spend, buy a dependable cheap speaker then buy a Linn.  Works for me.

The speakers in my main system are Infinity RS1.5's from 1980. They have outlasted multiple attempts to replace them with newer speakers.

My oldest piece of equipment….

My Todger MK1.  I had always been able to maintain it quite well for the first 70 years.

Unfortunately l feel more recently has fallen out of spec. Thinking it now underperforms compared with more modern equipment.🎢

The oldest pieces of audio equipment I own are a McIntosh MR65B tube tuner (Mcintosh's first stereo tuner) and an H.H. Scott 350B tuner, both from around 1962. The longest I've owned a piece of audio equipment would be my Marantz 2230 receiver, which I received as a 16th Birthday present from my parents in 1975.  It is still going strong fifty years later! 👍