Senior Audiophiles - Audiophile since the 60-70's?

My first "serious" speakers were Bozak -302 in 1965,I have no time nor you the interest in all the systems I had.There is no doubt in my my mind that the last decade brought us excellent,i.e. superior speakers and electronics.I do not agree that the current cost of high end equipment has risen dramatically.An Levinson ML-2 Amp,was priced at around $3000. (if my memory serves me right) a loaded ML-6 preamp was about 6,000.that was thirty years ago when you could buy a house in La Jolla, Ca. for 100,000 plus.and you were lucky to earn $30,000 a year.Today you can get superb amps for a few thousand etc.The old marantz,and macs, simply dont cut it.

the only thing I miss about the sixties and seventies is the great audio dealers,who would let you try out equipment,help you set it up without charging you hundred $,and make you feel they are doing you a great favor.I do not miss the LPs at my age if I had to get up every 20 minutes to change record I may live longer because of that exercise but I just would not bother.Nor do I miss the tuning of the arm and cartridges nor the expense of wiping out the styluses.I beleive our memory deceives us the rate of improvement in audio in the sixties by marantz,mac ,JBL,Bozak followed by levinson was so impressive that we believed it was the best equipment today the rate of improvement is very slow and incremental at best that we tend not to appreciate how good audio equipment has become.I have to admit that I still try to improve on the quality of the reproduction by wasting money on the latest of whatever,but it is more out of boredom on no financial constraints.But once you cross into the seventh decade of your life you might aswell try enjoy every moment.