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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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! 👍

Really interesting topic.  I have a problem with letting things go.  I won’t go into all of the stuff that I’ve accumulated, but I’ll chime in with vintage things that are currently in use.  ESS AMT 1 Towers that I bought in 1976.  A HK Citation 12 that I built in 1975.  ARC SP3A-1, D76, Counterpoint SA5.1, VTL Tiny Tots, Klipsch Belles, LP12, Koetsu Rosewood, Acoustat 2+2’s, Counterpoint 3.1, Nak 680ZX2,  Moscode 150

Hats off to OP--great topic!

I just gave away 2 x RM9 tube amplifiers, ~44 yrs old each.

The oldest thing in my current system is a pair of KEF 103.2 speakers, large sealed 2-ways (44 or 45 years old). I remember a college friend being given a pair of these when he graduated med school. They were super-expensive for the time, ~$1,500.

Years ago I gave my brother my circa 1977 Pioneer receiver, a beautiful silver thing with pretty lights. I had it repaired once and so did he. His widow still runs it every day.