Today I learned that vintage is anything at least 25 years old. I also learned that antique is anything over 50 years old. I didn’t realize there was a difference.
A lot of Gen X people enjoy vintage audio gear. My speakers are vintage. I was surprised to learn my two receivers are antiques.
Back in the day my Pappy had a radio that was the size of a small refrigerator. I thought that was an antique. Antique to me meant inoperable junk or pristinely restored items from the previous millennium.
Never in a million years would I consider myself an antique collector. Yet here we are with me listening to antique electronics. Is that even a thing? Antique and electronics don’t belong in the same sentence.
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