Who to trust when buying vintage ss ?

There is risk to buy a new set of audio components...Total value must be under 1000 bucks for the audio system ...Because my vintage system cost me 700 bucks and is a TOP AUDIOPHILE system... Not a cheap makeship...

What are the risk to buy an under 1000 bucks system with a guarrentie versus to buy something like my vintage pieces with the necessary update clean cost ?

Simple : with a system costing under 1000 bucks for the dac the amplifier and the speakers or the headphone you can be rest assured that the sound quality will be mediocre...

With my under 1000 bucks system i own a TOP audiophile system which deliver the best sound there is ...

How in the world one of the best amplifier in 1988 can be rival by a cheap one today ?

how the Mission Cyrus speakers the best speakers Mission designed in 1990 , payed peanuts , because old now, can be replaced by cheap box of today ?

The most evident case is my TOP of the wo4rld flagship AKG K340 paid 100 bucks... They rival almost anything today...

What are the risks you will advise someone to take ?

Buying an under 1000 bucks audio system with a mediocre sound quality , or buying at low price some of the best of the past , if you are able to inform yourself to begin with  ?

I dont advise people able to pay for a 25,000 bucks system today to buy a vintage one at low price here, i advise people with not much money  to INFORM themselves before buying as i did before informing myself when i  bought HYPED NEW PRODUCTS AT LOW COST that were almost trash in sound quality..

If your budget is very limited , inform yourself, dont read reviews by reviewers but reviews by OWNERS... Read about acoustic .... Buy KINGS of the past... Not unknown vintage trash...Dont buy nowadays lost cost gear save if the technology is new as for dac , i bought a low cost very good contemporary dac not a vintage one guess why ? ... But amplifiers , speakers and headphones , this is an other story...Vintage gave the best S.Q. /price ratio... But you must know what you will buy and inform yourself...

No way i could have reach Hi-Fi at low cost ( 700 bucks with reparations and dac included few years ago ) with new products on the market...

Then i would have bought in all probabilities under 10,000 dollars of the wrong stuff...Especially the headphones...

What headphone can outshine my K340 and which Amplifier will outshine the Sansui alpha and at what price?

The same reasonnings go with my 50 bucks more than average Mission Cyrus 781...So low in price because the owner did not know if they even worked... 😊

The bonus is before buying you must read and study the vintage products among the other choices... Most people dont do this with new offerings... They succumb to the marketing ...

my grain of salt...

The worst products i bought were all new one...After reading reviews speaking of the new offerings...

With vintage you have tons of USERS reviews...

Very different reviews than reviewers reviews ...😊

New never means better in my book...

Save if you pay a huge amount of money corresponding to TOP product of today which will rival or beat TOP product of yesterday...(it will be true for my amplifiers and for my speakers if you pay a lot of money but good luck to replace the K340 with anything even the costlier headphone )

Ok my grain of salt is already too big for most ...😊

Anyway most people here seems to swim in money sea,and reviewers, sellers and consumers dont like my claim : "audiophile high-End experience for those who lack money "...my claim is a devaluation of their experience or worst  : a lie... But the gear can lie , acoustic never lie ... 😁

I must be an audiophile "provocateur"....

No Modern amplifier are able to give me the many functionalities and flexibility and quality i was buying with an old Sansui AU 7700...NONE.... At almost any price...Look at the manual owner to verify...

I like it so much i bought a more refined Sansui alpha but with less functionalities because more modern even if it is vintage today also ...

I only payed for a technician to refresh the necessary old components of the AU 7700 ... But i keep the alpha as it is... Even with this added price for the AU 7700 it is a bargain...I used it 8 years till i needed the more refined alpha for my picky headphone..

I will not spoke about my old K340 from AKG... A treasure...nothing touch it i ever listened to...

Anybody who plan to buy new costly stuff must think what he need for himself to begin with BEFORE buying ...

You must know a knowleadgeable technician near by.... There is a need for up to date replacement of the internals...In many case...

But i smile at every new amplifier offer at many thousand dollars and more... For 500 bucks i own two amplifiers i will never sold...I used the alpha Sansui with my K340 ...

The alpha is so much good any upgrade is meaningless..

Before bashing vintage use your brain...😊

Is the top amplifier of 1978 or 1988 always a top product ? Yess..

More than that no headphone today under 1000 bucks and probably more can deliver the S.Q. of the K340...NONE...It would be too costly and too complex to design one that will work satisfyingly today and make profit... This is what a Russian big headphone company said to me CLEARLY...😁

Vintage myths of the past are not ALL trash , it is the opposite for some past products compared to the average costlier product on the market today...There is a reason why some products reach mythical status and we are then able to read tons of positive reviews about them today ...

The only exception is not my amplifiers, there is no negative reviews about my two Sansui all over the net at all ; but the K340 received a few negative reviews because some of few reviewers never was able to figure out how work this complex designed headphone , which were AKG flagship for a good reason and the best headphone they ever designed ...I know because the negative they described i experienced it after i connected my K3490 after buying them  BEFORE MY 6 MONTHS optimization process... No,   this top of the world product is not easy to figure out... Sorry... but when all is done to embed it properly  it surpass most existing headphones by far... Read about it to understand why ...

Vintage rule the ratio S.Q. /price scale... Thats is for sure...

My 700 bucks system beat all i ever listened to and rival the rest not too far behind ... end of my story.... I listen music now not my system defects... 😊