In the day, I lusted after the Phase Linear line . . . would grab a 700B, bring it back and have it "modernized".
If you hopped into your time machine and brought back audio gear- what would it be?
So you have a time machine and you could go back to the days when you first started to get interested in and knowledgable of good audio gear- and a genie grants you one audio wish- you can bring back any single component from those halcyon days- what are you coming back with?