@mikelga I remember dreaming of hi-fi gear way back in my younger days; then working part time while in university, to buy piece by piece the parts to make a nice system.
And nowadays -- you can find stuff on the trash on garbage collection day, or donated to thrift stores. I have a few receivers here that are Vintage, Yamaha, Mitsubishi, but still couldn't pass a beautiful Technics from the 90's when I saw it in the store.
For less than 10 dollars. The cost of the parts, it's a heavy amp, would be hundreds in its days.
@design_RG yes, indeed! This monday i went to the valuable recicling deposit ( i do not know how do you call it) to throw away a very damaged microwave oven from the early 2000s when i realized that people throw a large number of valuable electronic items such as turnables, radios, tv screens and a lot of computer pheriperals... It made me think about how much we waste everything just for, sincerelly, i do not know why...
I am searchig for a turnable that it is not very damaged and i saw a technics brand one but had the deck a little bit deformated and the chasis was broken...