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In Reply to: RE: What is "Vintage"? posted by TheBrewmaster on July 31, 2014 at 23:13:10
Depends on what your age is. For me it's anything older than 1960, but for the youngsters around here it seems to be anything older than 1980.
Another way of looking at it is that anything tube powered is vintage, and anything solid state is modern. It's all relative.
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Fender and Marshall amp boards set an arbitrary line at 1985.
FWIW.
Solid state gear started to take over the commercial market between 1965 and 1970. Tubes were considered passe' by the early 1970's, except for a few older diehard audiophiles who clung to their McIntosh and Marantz gear. William Z Johnson revitalized tube audio in the mid-70s and beyond, with his Audio Research products, aided and abetted by Harry Pearson. Most of the earliest ss gear sounds bad, IMO, but it sure is vintage. But early AR amplifiers and preamplifiers are "vintage", too, in my mind. I think pre-1980 is a more reasonable cut-off point for "vintage", rather than using the technology as a divider. But one could also say that products made by now defunct companies and that are now more than 10-15 years old (i.e., less than the 34 years since 1980) are also vintage. It's a very plastic concept. For example, I own both a Klyne 6LX/P preamp (solid state) and an early Quicksilver full-function preamp (vintage 1980s). I would say both are vintage, but it's arguable. Pre-1950 is antique.
"Another way of looking at it is that anything tube powered is vintage".
Are you sure? Modern tube equipment is being made today, and no one would call it vintage.
I stand corrected; make that pre 1965 tube gear.
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