Who has the oldest speakers?

my smaller advents have followed me from house to house since i got my first job in 1974, i bought them used for 75 bucks. i drag 'em out to the deck when weather permits. the bong water stain still adorns one of the grills. oh to be young again!

Chartwell LS3/5a's 15 Ohm version in Rosewood veneer circa 1978. In service along with Paradigm Studio 40 v2. Keep switching bach and forth amd am always amazed at the quality of its midrange.

I've got a mid-sixties pair of AR's, I think they are 3a's. Dad bought 'em new, and I've had them for 20 years. Shit, now I'll have to dig them out and see how they sound!

My father bought a pair of Scott 3-way "bookshelf" speakers in 1966, along with a Garrard idler wheel-driven changer and a Scott 15 watt transistor receiver. The Garrard has been dead for at least 25 years, the receiver for 10, but the speakers are still going strong in my 2-channel home theater system. They are an acoustic suspension design with a 12" woofer, so while inefficient they go quite low and quite loud with sufficient power. They can scream in fact. Actually much more than adequate for this application.

I have a single Wharfedale speaker made who knows when. It's definitely old--I'm guessing the sixties or early seventies. I don't think it dates to the mono era--I have the feeling that it was part of a stereo pair, with the other speaker having blown up or something. I got it at a charity yard sale because I was curious how good it was. My finding? Let's put it this way--I'd give it One Star. (And, as a character on _Are_You_Being_Served?_ commented, when talking about a one star hotel, "There is no such thing as a no-star hotel." The same thing applies to my rating.)