In Reply to: Legacy Products That Out Perform Their Modern Counterparts posted by geezerrocket on September 2, 2014 at 10:45:40:
Stacy, I currently own Altec 19s, 1977 alnico Cornwalls, early 60s JBL Apollos, Thorens Td124 MKll, and a slew of tube gear. I have in the past owned much of your list.
IMHO, little, or none of it is superior to current offerings; cut through the romanticism and nostalgia and the emperor is surely feeling a draft. To be reliable most of it needs to be chocked full of new parts and, often circuit revisions. Very few in the US actually do restorations with like vintage parts replacing bad ones.
It's fun, for sure, but lots of folks look at this old stuff through rose tinted glasses.
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- A contrarian perspective............. - viridian 20:54:45 09/02/14 (1)
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