I saw the back of an integrated and it depressed me.

@waytoomuchstuff “…I was in the Apple store the other day and noticed the new iMacs don't have a floppy drive built in. …”

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I was looking at my smartphone the other day and realized what the H-ll happened to the dial with the numbers on it, not to mention the crank and that loud oscillating tone you used to get when you lost your connection?  

You should have looked at a luxman 4 RCA inputs a phono rcs and 1 xlr balanced input. Also a line (tape) out and monitor. Then a pre out but no digital at all. And it's class A.... 

So behind the times...... Haha

I replaced a old Nikko 7075 with a Outlaw Audio RR2160MKll,  best decision I ever made.  Plenty of Analog inputs also has digital inputs, 2 sub inputs, Analog Bass Control.  It's a Class A/B, Also has AM/FM HD, Internet Radio and a streaming app.  Sounds Amazing too (with my speakers. I use it 2.1 setup sometimes 4.1 when it's cocktail time and want to get the Led out. I understand when people say technology ruined things and I agree to a point.  For Example, my wife and I went over friends house for food and drinks well lots of drinks, (we did stayed over)  It was a big get together, 3/4 of everyone was on there fracking cell phones.  I yelled out "hey we haven't scene each other in a year!  Lets try to stay off the phones for a hour!"   When we left the next morning I said lets put our phones in a bag when everyone comes over? 

To the OP's point, I had one of those "moments" when McIntosh added digital inputs to their 2-channel preamps -- WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!  It was a depressing moment for sure.  My concept of "legacy" gear, or modern versions of marketing  "legacy" gear, was that the piece would never become obsolete.  Low level inputs, MM/MC phono stages, etc. have stood the test of time, and like the tune Yesterday, will probably still be relevant 50 years from now.  "Digital" is a moving target.  And, like the Apple floppy drive, we'll look back and remember the current digital processing as being as useful today as a fax machine.  The trick is how to design around obsolesce, making upgrades doable, without performance issues.  This has been the challenge in "upgradable gear" for quite some time.

So, yes, OP, I had my moment.