[Ron]

Eeyore wrote:
Laurence Payne wrote:

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:36:02 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:

Decided a few weeks ago to upgrade from my new but cheap $100 or less
turntable, I made the assumption that a basic turntable from the 70's or
80's would be considerably better than what I had considering the thin
plastic platter etc... of my current turntable, was this assumption wrong?

Of course it's wrong.

Is 70s auto technology a match for today's for example ?

Yeah, but vintage vinyl-playing gear is GOOD. Modern gear is BAD. Do
try to keep up :-)

Silly me.

I'd nearly forgotten that it's all about worshipping OLD things.

Graham

Not ALL technology is leaps and bounds above others just because of the
yr/decade it was built.

Cars are certainaly a good example of something that has come a long
way when comparing decades, but I don't think the same can be said
about a lot of audio gear.

There are a lot of amps, tuners, speakers, etc from the 70's and 80's
that are just as good, if not better in a lot of cases, then the junk
that is being mass produced today.

For example, I have a Marantz 1090 integrated amp (from the 70's) that
is only 45 WPC that will blow away any of the junk that you can buy
these days with twice the "watts".

Hell, it will almost keep up with the amp I'm using on my main system,
a B&K power amp that is 105 WPC.

Also, the Space Shuttle is still using 60's technology, sure it has
some better computers than the rockets did back then, but the basic
principal is the same.