Your feelings on vintage audio.


Harkening back to the days of my youth.....my neighbor owned a console with a Scott fm tuner, Fisher amp and a TT. I loved playing with and listening to music through it.

And with the resurgence of interest in older equipment in the market, its' impression of quality sound reproduction and build, perhaps nostalgic feelings and wanting to dabble in tubes on my part, I've gone ahead and purchased a Scott 350B tuner.

I'm also looking at another 350 and Scott intergrated.
I know they'll need some work. But for the price it seems like a fun way to step into tubes, satisfy this urge and you gotta admit some of that gear is absolutely stunning looking!

So...What do you guys and gals think? Worth the admission price plus repairs? Waste of time and cash? Could do better DIY or newer used equipment?

Sound Quality? From reading sounds like I might be getting mids but poor highs and poor bass!
Build Quality?

How does CD sound through the gear? Are there difficulties using CD with this older gear?

Maybe some speaker recommendations. Sat/Sub (problems with subs?), monitor, full range or single driver? The integrateds I'm looking at run anywhere from 15 to 30 watts RMS.

Thought this might be a fun pastime; I look forward to your input.

Best
corazon

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To me vintage is pre 1980. Yea, I really want to go back to speakers with rca jacks, amps with barrier strip outputs, back panel rca jacks that are galvanized metal. two prong connected power cords, woofers made of paper, woofers held in with 4 sheet metal screws,tons of speaker hiss that comes for who knows where, lamp cord speaker cables, two way speakers, amps with 30 watts and a S/N ratio 80, I really want 8 trak tapes too because i love music that last 3 plays and then gets eaten by the machine. I want to go down to Kmart and buy records that are as thin as the celopane(sp) wrapper.

I dont want to look back, but dont knock those who like it.