AK is "All Audio. No Attitude". Take a look at what Admin Grumpy says in this thread "Do you think AK is about vintage or cheap ?".
The Modern Day HiFi forum is really about modern/current production equipment, plus the modern system approach. There are many pieces of solid state equipment that fall between Vintage and Modern Day. At what point does something become vintage, vs. classic, out-of-production, obsolete, collectible, used. etc.? As an analogy, you might have a car that is a few years old, discontinued model; it is outdated, might not have the latest integrated Audio/Visual, navigation, collision-avoidance and 10+ airbag safety enhancements but you would not call it vintage. To label the forum as vintage might preclude someone from joining or discussing a great piece of equipment or experience. Vintage to someone in their 50s or 60s might be different from someone in their teens or 20s.
The point is to not limit our perspectives and the opportunity for useful information, interested members and meaningful discussion on all solid state. We are here to have fun and enjoy all aspects of this hobby.
As the forum subtitle states: "Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock'n'roll to us".
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The point is to not limit our perspectives and the opportunity for useful information, interested members and meaningful discussion on all solid state. We are here to have fun and enjoy all aspects of this hobby.
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True enough. Most of my "vintage" pieces have an awful lot of modern parts in them and I'm pretty sure a number of them sound better than when they were new.Totally agree.
Looking from the technical perspective, we are putting/replacing old and obsolete parts (semi conductors, caps, etc) in the vintage gear with newer and more technologically advanced ones thanks to the all information shared. So, the boundaries between "vintage" and "modern" become even harder to define...
And frankly, a separation between two categories won't help. More people will come to learn and help. The guys at Modern Day Hi Fi are highly competent, too. Not to mention those at DIY page.
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+1True enough. Most of my "vintage" pieces have an awful lot of modern parts in them and I'm pretty sure a number of them sound better than when they were new.
... Posting about a Quad 405 II is equally at home here as it is in the British hifi area. the responses may vary so choose the area that is most relevant to your post i suppose...
No offenses, sir. They won't help either.They had to stop calling it "vintage" because the hipsters were starting to catch on.
They had to stop calling it "vintage" because the hipsters were starting to catch on.