i planned on making this one when i first came here and joined, but me and my procrastinating self and end up with other distractions i never got around to it...

i decided since there is still lot of people still hanging on gear from the ''golden'' era of audio where audio was huge and most important, and pushed technology to what we know of today in everyday audio equipment, i find it nice to show appreciation of some of these fine pieces that are still kicking. talk about anything involving gear of the past here. might be praising,asking for help, or recommendations. doesn't matter! everything and anything vintage here!


i personally enjoy these older pieces a lot. learned a lot from them and still am learning. might be old but they sound amazing! i say i'm mainly a yamaha,sansui and harman kardon fanboy and will admit it when coming to vintage receivers,power amps and preamps,  and always will have a soft spot for kenwood cause i always felt they're really under appreciated and kenwood made lot of amazing stuff. not really too big on marantz and pioneer though. i know, i know, i'm probably gonna get flack for that but i'm willing to take it,but they did make ton of impressive gear. i think pioneer did better with their power amps than receivers,especially their dual-mono amps personally though.

sansui receivers always had that clarity and special sound to them that was hard to explain while i found yamaha and harman kardon made more clean,transparent and accurate sounding equipment, especially in their power amps and preamps. yamaha and older harman kardon designs were the first ones i ever experience to come very close to ''straight wire with gain'' in my opinion and had tons of bandwidth that never sounded rolled off in the upper high frequencies and lower sub-bass frequencies so nothing is ever missed in the music and all there. they just play it how it is.

i love older tube radios and tuners though as well. they're just awesome!