Q. Why do so many audio fans seem to prefer a vintage receiver over new receivers with modern technology? Are there actual reasons that older equipment can sound different or better? I have a Technics ...

Eight years ago, Mikey Weiss had wanted to build a display of vintage stereos at his Brooklyn store – “a museum piece,” he calls it – to show people what stereos looked like in the 1970s. His ...

From Issue Six of Gear Patrol Magazine. Discounted domestic shipping + 15% off in the GP store for new subscribers. Maybe it was a hand-me-down, maybe it was a spur-of-the-moment eBay grab, or maybe ...

I'm in the process of putting together a budget hi-fi system and I am curious for any advice fellow Arsians could provide. I would like a system that is purely stereo and produces high SQ rather than ...

The Turntable Vintage Audio has opened in Manheim where it sells a variety of stereo equipment and speakers from the 1970s and 1980s. The roughly 1,000-square-foot shop at 27 N. Main St. carries ...

Vintage electronics and ham radio enthusiasts gathered in Kalamazoo Saturday for the Vintage Electronics Expo.

The lengths the retrocomputing devotee must go to in order to breathe new life into old gear can border on the heroic. Tracing down long-discontinued parts, buying multiple copies of the same unit to ...

Most vintage speakers have been repaired at some point. If they haven’t, they’ll likely need to be in the future. Speakers perform a great deal of continuous mechanical work, and, like most things, ...

My ecoustics colleagues and I often field questions about why we like vintage audio gear or prefer it to modern equipment. Let us explain why. “Most old turntables are also sub-par performance-wise.

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Grandpa smell. Let’s talk about it. My grandpa smelled great, and I have no complaints about my kid’s grandads, so forgive me for the sweeping statement. But there’s something about the smell of some ...

For serious audiophiles, there’s no comparing modern stereo systems to the equipment being produced from the 1950s to the ’70s. Nowadays, electronics are made to be upgraded and replaced every few ...