"thekid" brings up a good point in another thread : Not a ot goes on here in the vintage forum so let's put a little life into this.

I see lots of stuff labelled vintage, particularly on Ebay. This included plastic Yorx,Soundesign, Lennox, etc. stereos and thin-walled, hollow--backed speakers from cheezy phonograph/8-track tabletop stereos. IS this vintage or simply cheap stuff that was "not audiophile worthy" when they were made that's lived in the celar, attics or garages of owners for decades?

To me, it means something that was a good performer in it's time antd that time should be quite some time ago, although this might be bordering on a "classic" designation, but I don't think something needs be "vintage" to be "classic". I see vintage as a classic with age.

Now. maybe since I remember some of those radio shack catalogs from the early sixties I have a stricter standard than most*, but let's see what others think.

*I still cringe when people talk about "vintage" CD players even though they have been around since the early eighties. Don't even get me strted on vintage AVR's