Pros & cons of buying a vintage receiver

[Feanor]

Oh, yeah...I remember the HK 730! (We carried HK & Marantz as our main lines, plus Rotel and JVC). That was a nice unit but we didn't sell too many of them, most people seemed to go for the Marantz instead. And then there was the HK 330...something of a headache in terms of number of units needing service. But I digress...

I recently retired an HK 330A I bought circa 1974. It was working fairly well but not perfectly; one channel of the tape input was attenuated and a couple of lights were burned out. I replaced it with a recently bought vintage NAD receiver, (7013? will have to check).

The NAD is 8 or so years younger than the HK and working very well. Actually, a much nicer unit than the HK ever was.