How much interest in the vintage look?

Scotty said:
For my home theater, I have suggested replacing the Mac equipment (with those big blue meters) several times - she sez no way. So, I think there is a big market out there for appearance, especially the vintage stuff.
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I have a McIntosh integrated waiting to go into my 2-channel HT system. I tried it the other day and hated to take it out because it looks so good there.
 
There is definitely still interest in the vintage look. Those 70's receivers still command a crazy price.

I helped someone put a small system together who only wanted to spend about $400.00 on the amp. I showed them the Yamaha 301 integrated and the Dayton Audio HTA-200. No contest, they chose the Dayton just on the look. The unit is a hybrid seeing the tube got them excited. I was really surprised at how well that unit sounded for $400.00. It drives a set of Kef R3's pretty well.

JBL put out an integrated amp with a retro look. There were others just can't think of them now.

My preamp has menus which once set up I don't have to mess with, my preference would be something like Pass where it's a straight forward preamp with no menus, keep it simple.

I'm really surprised someone hasn't already offered some type of 70's replica. I just wonder if that resurgence has peaked already or not.
 
Mr Peabody said:
There is definitely still interest in the vintage look. Those 70's receivers still command a crazy price.

I helped someone put a small system together who only wanted to spend about $400.00 on the amp. I showed them the Yamaha 301 integrated and the Dayton Audio HTA-200. No contest, they chose the Dayton just on the look. The unit is a hybrid seeing the tube got them excited. I was really surprised at how well that unit sounded for $400.00. It drives a set of Kef R3's pretty well.

JBL put out an integrated amp with a retro look. There were others just can't think of them now.

My preamp has menus which once set up I don't have to mess with, my preference would be something like Pass where it's a straight forward preamp with no menus, keep it simple.

I'm really surprised someone hasn't already offered some type of 70's replica. I just wonder if that resurgence has peaked already or not.
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I see a few doing it like Luxman and Leak. I just think they look so classy. Much better than the boring antiseptic look of what we see today with some brands.
 
Mike said:
I see a few doing it like Luxman and Leak. I just think they look so classy. Much better than the boring antiseptic look of what we see today with some brands.
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Curious what you think of Esoteric looks? I personally am not a good judge of visuals for obvious reasons however I really like Esoteric though they'd be considered more modern. The monoblocks are very cool. I got to live vicariously as I got to unbox my friend's for him and help set them up.

On an unrelated note I thought it was so cool the top of the box lifted off opposed to making you bend over and lift a monstor out of the box. Still lifting involved their box design was so much better though.
 
Mr Peabody said:
Curious what you think of Esoteric looks? I personally am not a good judge of visuals for obvious reasons however I really like Esoteric though they'd be considered more modern. The monoblocks are very cool. I got to live vicariously as I got to unbox my friend's for him and help set them up.

On an unrelated note I thought it was so cool the top of the box lifted off opposed to making you bend over and lift a monstor out of the box. Still lifting involved their box design was so much better though.
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I like the way they look, Dag, Burmester too. But Soulution and CH won’t win any beauty contests in my books.
 
Very interested. In addition to the vintage receiver's nice looks, the inclusion of both AM and FM made it easy to listen to music as well as the ball games and news radio. I loved all of the controls - tone, balance and so forth. And yes, even the "loudness" control.

But... unlike the receivers of the 70's, these would need to controllable from the remote.

I'm guessing that two groups in particular might benefit from the availability of "modern vintage" receivers: older people downsizing (if they sound good enough) and young people just getting in to the hobby who might be seduced by all of the bells and whistles (if they come at a reasonable price point).
 
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