Your experience in "in their day" brands/components that you remember foundly?

I never had one, but 2 friends had Sherwood receivers back in the early/mid 70s. Blew most everything else away.

I still think fondly of my Acoustic Research XA turntable and Shure V15VMR cartridge. I was a student in the Boston area and first saw the XA at the AR showroom. I got the cartridge from Tech HiFI.

I'm still gladly using Tannoy Dual-Concentric loudspeakers,  since the rest of the system is at its best, the speakers are, too.

Regards,

Dan

Oh, I forgot my Garrard 401!

Loved my Teac reel to reel (X7-R).  If it would’ve been a car, it would’ve had 500,000 miles on the odometer before it gave up the ghost.  Loved everything about having a reel to reel during the ‘80s, …going thru the motions of threading a reel up, making recordings, playback at altered speed with the X7-R’s pitch control, etc, etc, etc..  To steal a line from “Lebowski”, it really fit right there in it’s time and place.  Would I give up digital streaming to go back to that?  Naaah.  Probably not.