20 Vintage Amps That Prove They Really Don’t Make Them Like They Used To

I owned two of them in my life and they were good...

My actual Sansui alpha is not the same as illustrated here but posterior of few years and the peak of Sansui tech.,..

He drives my headphone from the headphone out better than the best tube  headphone amplifier and pre-amplifier  i bought (a very TOP design very well known) but the difference were so staggering i returned the new tube amplifier immediately..

Think about that: a powerful Tube amp with a top linear power supply beaten by the headphone amp out of a vintage Sansui amplifier...

I thought i was upgrading changing my Sansui alpha and the return back cost me money but i dont regret the lesson...

Vintage top product dont means obsolete...

Vintage means you need to clean and put in in his original state, thats all...

( As a sidenote the TOP new headphone amplifier had a way better noise floor level  control but was unable to drive into the third dimension with natural timbre my heaphone AKG K340  it takes me 15 minutes to decide so much the difference was staggering in spite of a higher noise floor with the Sansui)

Wow!  Great story!  Thanks for sharing!

@quincy This is an interesting article and worth reading. 

But the premise of the article is false. There are plenty of amps out there that are built 'like they used to' in that they are built with high quality parts and construction (including point to point wiring), meant to last as well as sound good. 

That page is the biggest dealer in fluff, disinformation, and general weirdness that I've come across. I delete their posts when they show up in my FB feed.