Horun wrote on 2024-12-04, 03:09:Yeah. But things can be odd where a later generation wants to experience something they only heard about. Things like a 1969 Cam […]
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Yeah. But things can be odd where a later generation wants to experience something they only heard about. Things like a 1969 Camero or 1970 AR Cuda have dropped a bit but still are wildly expensive so would not use muscle car era as example....
One current Example of where things can go where no one expected: There has been a resurgence in the gen-z era (hate those terms, ie. born late 1990's-2010's) to experience things their parents/grandparents talked about that they rarely/barely or never experienced. Vinyl record sales are on the rise because more of that generation than any one else, supposedly because they want to experience what that era of analog audio is all about, and seems they like it.
That also creates a demand for turntables and amps/receivers to go with (have seen older turntables triple along with older receivers/amps that have true turntables inputs since 2017).
Price also does have to do with inflation and rarety.... but also odd trends seem to effect things.
I think a big part of that has to do with something very simple: generally speaking, newer things are better, at least for daily use. CDs are better than vinyl; fuel-injected cars are better than carbureted cars; ink jet printers are better than dot matrix; LCD monitors are better than CRT monitors; digital photography is better than analog photography; Windows NT is better than Windows 98SE; word processors are better than typewriters; etc.
So, if you lived through a particular era, you have all the trauma of having lived through the old way of doing something. And an appreciation that the newer ways solved those problems. Take, say, analog photography: it was just wonderful spending big money on an expensive roll of film + processing, putting it in a crappy camera with a lousy viewfinder, and discovering two weeks later that, oops, everybody's head is cut off from your photos. Digital photography fixes all those issues.
The younger generations who never lived through that era, well, they don't have that trauma. And so, for them... there's something... endearing... about the quirks of the old ways. It helps that generally speaking, the lower end items of the old era remain forgotten, e.g. I doubt any analog photography enthusiast would be using my elcheapo late-1980s 35mm camera. No, they'd be using a good 35mm camera, the kind that preteens would never be allowed to touch in the late-1980s. And so if you have the better equipment from the old days, and you're not trying to use it for anything other than fun (e.g. would you take pictures at an important family event with an analog camera in 2024? of course not, at least not unless you knew someone else was taking pictures with a digital camera...), then suddenly your view of the old technology is a lot more positive.
