That’s too bad, seems like everything from the Early era Rock and Roll is fading to black. I deleted all my social media about this time last year in a effort to just decompress from the digital tether and get back to nature. I haven’t logged in over there for over a year either. Hopefully the next generation will pick up the torch. Although I am not so sure these days. Pretty sure I am the only one left in my group of music lovers that even has a system anymore. So I try and keep half a dozen going at my place to keep the balance. Hell I have tried to give friends complete stereo systems and offer to set it up for them. They don’t seem to a have the interest anymore. If not for my wife and son I’d be going to most concerts alone as well. Kinda like Hank Jr. said, All my rowdy friends have settled down.
To give you some hope. Im in my late20’s and at one point owned almost all the monster receivers. Still have loads of high end 70’s gear along with 10k records (and growing daily) along with Nakamichi tape decks, EMT, Thorens and Linn turntables. The number of people who care about this stuff will drop but there are people like myself who are genuinely obsessed with vintage hifi
As with everything else in life, I was lucky or fortunate to have grown up in the right era. Born mid '50’s, I was there for the first wave of high end gear. I did not plan this. Tack on the fact that I was in the service, and could buy through the PX system, for a significant discount. The catalog from the PX was incredible, with page after page of 1975’s best. That this was in the midst of the rock and roll revolution was just frosting! From the middle of the Mediterranean, I ordered my dream set, of which I still have the 4 Kenwood kl555d speakers. Sweet.
Tbf even AK isn’t what it used to be, a lot of the older knowledgeable guys died
That’s too bad, seems like everything from the Early era Rock and Roll is fading to black. I deleted all my social media about this time last year in a effort to just decompress from the digital tether and get back to nature. I haven’t logged in over there for over a year either. Hopefully the next generation will pick up the torch. Although I am not so sure these days. Pretty sure I am the only one left in my group of music lovers that even has a system anymore. So I try and keep half a dozen going at my place to keep the balance. Hell I have tried to give friends complete stereo systems and offer to set it up for them. They don’t seem to a have the interest anymore. If not for my wife and son I’d be going to most concerts alone as well. Kinda like Hank Jr. said, All my rowdy friends have settled down.
To give you some hope. Im in my late20’s and at one point owned almost all the monster receivers. Still have loads of high end 70’s gear along with 10k records (and growing daily) along with Nakamichi tape decks, EMT, Thorens and Linn turntables. The number of people who care about this stuff will drop but there are people like myself who are genuinely obsessed with vintage hifi
As with everything else in life, I was lucky or fortunate to have grown up in the right era. Born mid '50’s, I was there for the first wave of high end gear. I did not plan this. Tack on the fact that I was in the service, and could buy through the PX system, for a significant discount. The catalog from the PX was incredible, with page after page of 1975’s best. That this was in the midst of the rock and roll revolution was just frosting! From the middle of the Mediterranean, I ordered my dream set, of which I still have the 4 Kenwood kl555d speakers. Sweet.
Or left… the mods there are dicks.