Plastic is a highly useful material, but one that can also be a pain as it ages. Owners of vintage equipment the world over are suffering, as knobs break off, bezels get cracked and parts warp, ...

There’s a legitimate reason to shop for vintage audio components: they still sound great. If you know what to look for, and accept that ownership comes with a price, you can buy some of the best ...

Does vintage audio still make sense? Only if you follow some basic rules and understand that bargains are becoming harder to find. Buying vintage audio or used high-end audio from the 1980s or 1990s ...

As the years go by, headphones only get better and better. Whether it be actual audio quality or new conveniences, such as wireless connectivity, being introduced, there's plenty of reason to own an ...

Vintage audio is en vogue. Vinyl has been experiencing an incredible renaissance — so much so that it has encouraged a whole industry to making new turntables, preamps, phono cartridges and other ...

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 ...

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In a society enamored by the next newest thing, there are still people who like their books on paper, prefer their thank-you notes handwritten, would rather talk to people than interact with bots, and ...

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 ...

The vast majority of people today get their music digitally, listening through earbuds, headphones or small Bluetooth speakers. But there is a small — yet growing — group of music lovers for whom ...

Looking for a store that specializes in vintage audio equipment? Cherry Vintage Audio in South Carolina needs to be on your radar. The past 18 months have been rather grueling in New York; between ...