What perspective is that? CD players didn’t exist in the 70s? $500 turntables now were $100 then? An inexpensive DAC now is better than an old turntable? WTF kind of a comparison is that? LOL![]()
My hearing and ganja was better in the 70's....
They had some high tech turntables back then. And the music of the time was also unique. That experience I don't think it can be reproduced today, not in that state-of-mind. So in that regard each era follows its own unique music culture and technological advancement. To compare quality hi-fi from fifty years ago with today I think we have to take account for the "transportation", the music effect on the emotional level. That is only one of the several aspects in a fair comparison.
Today the sound quality is much more improved, and the music is also different, and we are fifty years olders, us the music listeners.
It's no wonder that some of us we cherish the music albums that we acquired in the 70s. They had tubes too back then, and fifty years later tubes are still with us and two days ago while shopping for some electronic accessories I saw some albums, vinyls @ my local Walmart store, including one from Frank Sinatra. /// Fifteen Canadian dollars.
New CDs, they still had some, new releases were from $10 to $15. Five or ten years from now they're will be no more CDs, but vinyls in stores were we go shopping for food, clothes, etc. Young people and older ones will buy them, even with all the hi-res audio file downloads from the internet world of computers and iPhones.
"Nothing Changes (Everything Stays The Same)"
I don't find it useless; it has some interesting perspective to it...almost fifty years of it.
Bob, my point was Julius gave us no parameters to work from, limited timelines, $$ figures, definitions, etc. No meat, no substance, I guess we are just to use our own imagination .........oh wait , that's what audiophiles do naturally !
come to think of it ..........the replies generated have put the meat on the bone.........continue forward !
There were no CD players in the 1970s.
The CD player wasn't introduced until October 1982
The iPod sure beat the walkmen.
Yes, I found it rather enjoyable, even though perhaps not for all music. Quite dynamic and clean, quite good tonality (even though perhaps not without some irritating details), very good bass. Let's look at it that way: My Octave amp costs 200 x more. Is it 200 times better? No.
But is it much better? You bet.
A C200 is a amazing preamp+++To further, there was SOTA then, and there is SOTA now. What's more interesting, the difference in today's SOTA and then's SOTA might surprise you in just how similar they are sonically, with regards to amplification and everything else in the analog domain. There are not that many different ways to run a tube or a transistor.
Properly restore an old Accuphase P-300/C-200 or a Sansui BA-F1/CA-F1 and tell me how far we have come. I have to stress, "properly" restore, but once done properly, this is truly amazing sounding gear. These are just a couple examples.
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