This is cool! I’m with you on the stereo. But I’m all over the vintage stuff. Spell that, “the stuff I used to sell for Jafco in the mid-70’s.
I still use the turntable I bought when I worked there. A Kenwood KD500 with an ADC carbon tonearm.
But I’m hijacking the thread.
Not really, because the same belief system that leads to mpingo wood disks and cryogenically treated CDs and $21000 pieces of wire can also exist in the instrument world. Once you see it in one area carried to a ridiculous degree, as it is in the audiophile community, you are more apt to recognize it when it springs up elsewhere.
I sold my old Denon turntable. YOu can’t find anything new to beat those older ones. YOur high end amplifiers from the past are still great today. The Pre-amps are better because they have more input and outputs. Speakers today are better for the money, but the bottom line is, you can have a total stereo system today for a tenth of the price of what they were selling 30 years ago for like $50,000 that is far an away better than the big screen tv you’ve got it hooked up too. Maybe next year I’ll get the big screen to go with it.