What's up with the price of Vintage equipment?

@noromance

1994 not vintage? Tell that to my 12 year old neice! She has a hard time comprehending why people would type directly onto paper and telephones with cords? How about CRT TV's with 19 inch screens, oh and with cords too! I remember showing her a dial telephone in an antique store, she could not figure out how to use it and when I showed her she looked at me like I had three eyes.

30 years is a long time. See you in 2054.... 

@jasonbourne71 

I'd rather not say to be honest, only because a while back I mentioned how I did not like the sound of a piece of equipment that I had actually owned for many years. I didn't trash it, I just said I didn't care for it. Someone just went ballistic that I didn't like the sound of that brand of amp. I even tried to reason with him, saying it was my own experience and opinion,  and he just sent more insults. I don't need anyone else saying "X is better then Y and you're stupid to think otherwise."

By the way, I owned a Marantz 2235 with Advent speakers and loved it. But I also brought them new in the 70's. Maybe I can safely say there are much better speakers out there now then the Large Advents from the 70's??? 

@mapman 

Yes, I well remember Tech Hi-Fi and the Ohm's - they had several great speakers. It's funny now, but we used to sell Cerwin Vega's against them! They didn't sound better, but the Vega's had a 15 inch woofer and people (teens mostly) thought, well, they HAVE to sound better with a 15 inch woofer! Well, they did sound pretty good with Disco. Live and learn. 

As the OP, I think the consensus is, the old stuff is brought for nostalgia and looks mainly. Perhaps as a second system also? Again, there is some great old stuff, I had some B&K amps and Hafler pre-amps that would give some stuff today a run for their money.

@moto_man

I had that Phillips turntable. Loved it. Besides the cool lighted buttons, the arm on it was actually pretty good. Although, once the electrics went on it, it was not worth fixing.

I had a friend who had the Phase Linear stuff back in the 70's, along with a Emprire turntable. Talk about lust...... 

I would agree the 70's stuff can't match today's technology. 

@noromance 

I'd agree that most of the japanese 1970-80's stuff is mid-fi at best. What I meant by vintage was anything before the 1990's, and not just tubes. Since antiques start at 30 years, I beleive the same would apply to audio equipment.

Although there is very good sounding stuff from the 1980's (I had AVID and Mirage speakers, Thorens/AR turntables, Shure V15, etc.) there was a lot of stuff considered high end back then, and some of it still is.But there was also lot of bad sounding stuff. The list is long.