I maintain that gear from the 80s was as good as it ever got. Most of us were playing through Fender, Marshall or Trace Elliot amps and producing the best tones the music industry ever recorded. After the 80s equipment didn't get better, it just got lighter. The equipment we used 40 years ago (I know, it doesn't feel like it) is probably still working, even if it is gathering dust in somebody's garage or spare room, while amps produced from 2000 has died and been thrown away, to be replaced with