paulr

On a regular basis (not stored in the attic) i still use my.....

Pioneer A400 Amp. (15 years old and still sounds great today)
IBM 600x laptop (bit slow but okay for basic use. Using it now btw)
Pioneer DV717 DVD player. (still knocks the spots off todays Asda cheapo's)

Miss my Ricoh KR10 though,best camera i've ever owned. Wish i'd never sold it now.

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

My Pioneer CD Recorder has gone **** up, I went into a shop to ask about buying another and the guy asked me WHY? So I said because it's the way I like to do things, you won't get one he said It's only 6 years old and apprantly you can't even get the parts to repair them.
Cheers
Colin

logiclee

I still use my Pioneer CLD925 Laser Disc player.
Cost me £1000 many years ago.

I built up a large collection in the days before DVD, some disc were approaching £50 to buy before DVD killed the format off.

Here's a pic for those with short memories.



Cheers
Lee

paulr

Lee,how does the quality compare with DVD's?

Chip

Iv'e got a Leak Delta 70 Amp, Thorens turntable and Wharfedale Linton speakers in the attic.

Chip

Tim-Grove

The TV in our kitchen is about 17 years old.





Not really AV but my moms tumble dryer was bought about a year before I was born. And I'm 27

De Warrenne

If you can bear to part with it, the Thorens (presuming its a 125) is worth a couple of hundred quid on fleabay

Still using a B&O BeoVision LX2502, which probably dates from the late 80's early 90's, still an amazingly good looking peice of kit, more like furniture than consumer electronics

Brun

Have a 20 year old JVC portable which is still in perfect working order

farmerwrx

Had this Aiwa hifi for 15 years now still works a treat, don’t use the Philips cd recorder at all now though

Chip

It's a Thorens TD 150 AB MK2

AudiLover

lol looks like my dads setup. To think you needed all that crap just to play music. Looked cool as **** back in the day though. Are each of those boxes quite heavy?

My old mans got a 35 year old electric lawn mower, and still has some wharfedale speakers that are old as **** too.

I still have the original game boy

logiclee

When DVD’s first came out all the AV guys slated it as a step backwards from laserdisc. The first discs and players suffered from digital artefacts and smearing, laser disc has an analogue picture and digital sound.
The problem with laserdisc is they are not anamorphic so you have to zoom in to see the widescreen presentation meaning you may be zooming in to about 350 lines of resolution. It was still a great picture on the 28” and 32” CRT sets of the time, a 32” set was a monster back then certainly far better than VHS.
As DVD technology gathered pace the picture quality soon outshone laserdisc, an Asda cheapo would probably get as good a picture as my £1000 laser disc player.

What hasn’t improved is the sound, the DTS and DD mixes on the later laser discs are not as highly compressed as most DVD’s and the sound is more open, even my £500 Denon DVD player doesn’t out perform the Pioneer on sound quality.

The major step forward is the price, a good laser disc player with DTS and DD used to cost around £1000 with discs costing upto £50 and that's many years ago.
I wonder how many people would be into home cinema today if DVD's were a similar price?

Cheers
Lee

De Warrenne

Not so sure about the 150's

Chip

Don't think they are worth as much tbh which is a shame. Still got the original receipt as well.

Chip

Chip

Oh and I've got an old Gibson ES-335 knocking around the house somewhere

Chip

farmerwrx

the only heavy piece is the amp

Shark Man

Sometimes newer isn't better IMO:

I have a 1978 Sony HMK70 integrated Hi-Fi system running off the audio from my PC (another relic - PIII 1gig with voodoo banshee gfx ). Although it has been modded, with beefed up power transistors and accompanying DC rectifyer components, so the power supply can handle it. Yet to find an equivelent modern Midi system that sounds as good as this with the matching power output, without resorting to audiovile separates. SuperHET radio receiver can also root out all the local pirate radio stations with ease.

I also have a 30 year old Philips TV in the spare room, fully functioning with "ultrasonic" remote control (predates infra red ). It's amazing how wide it is compared to the FST tubes that superceeded it...funny how it went full circle back to widescreen

Also a 1990 Technics full separates system including a hugely powerful SUX-90 amp (modified to be 2ohm stable) and fully automated turntable (works like a cd player ).

Finally I have a G.E.C stereo Radiogram with a BSR record player (keep it local ). Valve amplifier and built in 6x9 speakers. Picks up all sorts on the radio from over the English channel...even with FM!! Although I belive its blown a valve in the power amp on the one channel

damian666

I regularly make use of a computer that is 20years old.

Here is a pic:

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

I still use a Palm m500 every day. Not that old really I know but in the world of PDAs, it doesn't even do colour.

rik-1

I'm still using a Sharp Hi-Fi system (amp, tuner and cassette deck) bought new in 1979.

corradoboy

Still using my Cyrus II with PSX amp, alongside a Cyrus DAD7 CD player. The amp is 17yo and CD 15yo. I also still use my 17yo Mission 764i speakers as my main speakers in a 7.1 surround set-up. Over the years I've compared all these to newer replacements of equal and higher value and never found anything that makes me want to replace.

A mate who bought my 15yo Linn Basik from me many years ago has just resigned it due to a motor failure. He has utilised the arm and cart on his new deck though.

My old 15yo Finlux TV is still running in my nephews bedroom, even though its tuner went ages ago (fed via scart from VHS & DVD).

My Mac is ancient in computer circles, being a 400mhz G3 PB. Still running perfectly, but struggling with some new processor hungry apps and hi-res video now. Will be upgrading this soon.