What's the OLDEST stuff in your system?

[GordonW 10+ year member]

Being officially an "old fart" now, I guess (I started installing car audio back in 1984, and did it as a job until 1994, when I went into computers and later into home speaker design)... I was just contemplating how much stuff I still have, that STILL WORKS right. In fact, I'm about to put in a system into my daily driver (94 Protege), that's gonna have stuff like:

Proton 222 amp (from 1986) (and hopefully a SECOND Proton 222 amp, if I can find one)

EPI 8" woofers, from 1978 (!) (mounted into custom door pods)

Either an Alphasonik EX3 crossover (I bought it NEW back in 1984!) or an ADS 642i crossover (from about 1987).

HiFonics Cleo parametric EQ (1989).

All this stuff WORKS GREAT. The only casualty I've had was my old beloved Alpine 7905 CD player (which I bought on employee comp back in 1990)... CD mech finally bit the big one.

Got a new Alpine, to replace it. Nice thing, is that the new one has about 4 times the pre-out voltage (2v instead of .5v). Should make that old stuff sound even better (less noise)!!

So... anyone got any OLDER stuff than this in daily use? If anyone trumps me too bad, I'll have to dig out my old Fosgate 220 and 250 amps (1977), or my Zapco 151A (1977)...

Regards,

Gordon.

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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

I use a Carver M240 made in 1987 every day //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[justinschmiidt 10+ year member]

i dont use it anymore, but on my test bench i had a 198(?) kenwood tape deck

 

[skmfkr 5,000+ posts]

um my hu is from 2004...

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

wow lol

you got some old stuff. mines is old school 2nd gen Us amps

so small and yet im guestimating 600w out of it

 

[Ne1 10+ year member]

Hmm, that'd be the alpine 7914 in my car now. Actually, most of my gear is all older stuff, minus the speakers of course. Check out the sig, its all there. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

aren the cs 230's like at latest 03?

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

I have an original series HCCA 425 and up until a couple years ago I used a nak tape deck that was mid 80's in a test bench

 

[Ne1 10+ year member]

aren the cs 230's like at latest 03?

Hmm...yeah true, let me clarify then, they are the only things bought new in my car, the speakers that is.....

I actually wasn't aware they were quite that old, no matter, they were bnib when I got em, and sound wonderful, to me at least! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Boy though, that 600 sure does put off some heat.......

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

98' US Amps USA-400, and it's purple ftw.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

98' US Amps USA-400, and it's purple ftw.

You bastar*, sell it, I want one that color...

 

[Kickerkitty 10+ year member]

My oldest thing is my prefab box, it is 9 months old.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

The oldest in mine is the Remote wire, I dont replace if I dont have to...

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

as of right now my oldest piece of quipment is usamps 5600x. made in 2001.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

the oldest stuff in my car is the stock battery, from 2001.

Still bangin strong. and the ldest besides that is the remote wire, and the first of 2 Viper 1200.1d's