There's the life.

Are still here, didn't we vote you off in another thread.

Watcha you 'am I still here'...I thought I'd banned you. Me ban button must be broken again.

I have lots of old stuff but some of it doesn‘t work too good anymore, (sob). There was a woman here back in the hippie days who could take any ring and hold it and tell you about the person who the ring came from. Objects have stories? My portable gramaphone was purchased in a fire sale (scorched), re-covered and then 30 years later drowned in a flood, and I think with some wd-40 will still crank it out. They don‘t make ‘em like they used to. This model has the cutter on it so you could trim a porcupine quill down for each song.

Not exactly old (the ones I have anyway) but old technology. You can't beat valve amplifiers for guitars. I have a couple and would have more if I could justify it.

No clue what they are, but are they expensive?

Relatively. Depends on what you buy. Anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands for collectibles.

They amplify electric guitars. Modern technology as hard as it tries, simply can't recreate the beautiful sound of analog!

I had to go to a funeral a week or so ago, so I dug out the old suit that I hadn't worn since about 1994.....first surprise was that it still fit. Second surprise was when I sat down in the funeral home and saw that the moths had had a feast on my left knee and I could see patches of white skin showing through in a rather good representation of Ursa Major....But apart from that it still functioned.

My mother informed me that a set of knives she bought in 1958 had a lifetime guarantee. She took the set back to the outlet. One was missing, two were damaged. While they were somewhat surprised, they honored the guarantee. That set was no longer available, but they did give her 3 replacements at no charge. I wish I could remember the brand name. I'll ask next time I call. A company like that deserves support, and I could use some knives.

That's the reason those Craftman tools had a bit of a change in the lifetime guarantee from Sears.

People were buying up old tools for peanuts at lawn sales and then taking them back to the shop for a new replacement, which they'd then sell on ebay for a smidge less than new prices

Are you accusing my dear 85 year old mother of riding her three wheel bike to various unsavory garage sales, and scooping up knife collections.

+ 1,000,000

I can't afford an AC30, though (but I do have one of those VOX tonelabs with a valve, going through a not so old 1980 VOX Escort 50 ...)

This is also precisely the reason why a 1970 Moog will go for $3,000.00 or more, and a 1981 Jupiter 8 goes for more than $6,000.00

Now, Primula, do you mean old in age or old fashioned in style? If so - I have a record player that is new in age but there are generations who won't know what the hell one is. FFS, my daughter is going to grow up not knowing what a cassette is, let alone an LP

me.

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Now, Primula, do you mean old in age or old fashioned in style? If so - I have a record player that is new in age but there are generations who won't know what the hell one is. FFS, my daughter is going to grow up not knowing what a cassette is, let alone an LP [/QUOTE]

Even CD's are rapidly becoming something you hang over the vegetable patch on a bit of fishing line to scare the birds away...

I love AC30's but they are too loud!!
I have a DR Z Maz 18 and an Orange AD15, both EL84 amps (same as an AC30) and even with an attenuator to try and tame the volume, they're very loud. Awesome, but loud!

The tonelabs are actually very good. Definitely one of the better pieces of digital technology. PODs aren't bad either. Not as good as the real thing but very good for low volume.