Become a paid member to listen to this article. For serious audiophiles, there’s no comparing modern stereo systems to the equipment being produced from the 1950s to the ’70s.

But you can still find the vintage stereo gear from the 1950s through the 1970s at Getchell Amplifiers in Brownsburg, ... The reconditioned old equipment, he said, fits that bill.

Dynaco liquidated in 1980 — primarily due to improvements in solid-state amplifiers and a 1974 FTC ruling that changed the standard way of rating amplifiers’ power levels. But the ST-70 has remained ...

Q. I enjoyed your recent column on vintage audio equipment. I have a pair of ESS AMT 1C speakers with Heil Air Motion Transformer drivers. I have owned them since the 1970s and totally enjoy them.

[Jean] was shopping around for a vintage stereo receiver, and happened upon a broken, but repairable Marantz 4240. After getting things back to working order, he thought it would be great if he cou… ...

Q I enjoyed your recent column on vintage audio equipment. I have a pair of ESS AMT-1C speakers with Heil Air Motion Transformer drivers. I have owned them since the 1970s and totally enjoy them.

I have a Technics SA-600 stereo receiver from the late 1970s. ... In general, though, I think if you choose carefully you can get better sound with modern equipment than with vintage.

But for his current job (and what he hopes will be his last), the 57-year-old East Petersburg resident is doing what he did originally to make money for college: selling stereo equipment.

The Turntable Vintage Audio has opened in Manheim where it sells a variety of stereo equipment and speakers from the 1970s and 1980s. The roughly 1,000-square-foot shop at 27 N. Main St. carries ...