If your were to assemble a vintage system ?


Let’s say you were going to put together a vintage system and your source was primarily vinyl. Your price limit is $1500. What would it be? 
Make it as musical as possible. Super detail or thunderous bass isn’t going to be very high on the list. My first thought would be a 70’s Marantz receiver (50ish wpc is more than adequate) an 80’s AR table, and any iteration of a Vandersteen 2C that didn’t bust the budget. 

Could easily also swap in a Pioneer SX750 instead of a Marantz. 
Cartridge? Not sure- might actually go with something modern/current. AT or Nagaoka 

what would you put together? 
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Was just playing around with a perfect little vintage $1,500 rig... a much written about Musical Fidelity, A100 integrated, Canton, Karat 40 (3) way monitors; beautiful German build and a Music Hall, MMF 2.1 TT w/Adcom high output MC cart. Or, how about a Luxman R-1050 reciever w/rosewood cabinet, pair of Linn, Keilidh short towers and a HK, T-60 w/Signet cart. Guess the possibilities are endless. Will take some looking and shopping but these pieces are out there 
 The 70`s  gear I`d return to would be; The Dynaco preamp Pat5,  Dynaco 400 power amp  or David Hafler DH 200 DIY, Onkyo T100 tuner,  the original Technica SL 1200 T/T, Ortofon M15 Super E cart. Teac 4010 GSL reel to reel tape recorder, speakers Magnepan Tympani 1D`s I purchased all used $1585.
I have put together a vintage system along with my modern one and swap them over occasionally although I only have modern speakers Monitor Audio  Bronze 6s.

Vintage system.

Dual 510 with ortofon vms 30mkll
Sony tc-399 
Akai gxc 760d 
Akai aa1020 or rotel rx-1203 

Modern system

Rega p1 bias2 cart acrylic platter 
Marantz pm6006 
Marantz cd6006 
Marantz na6005 
Sony dtc-750 

Both sound great ....
Forgotten the headphones 

Vintage Dynatron SP3 refurbished 

Modern 
Stax l300 
Sennheiser hd 650
Hifiman he-560 
Schiit lyr 2 
Oh and a tascam md-350 

From my collection of vintage gear this is what I am listening to: Ariston RD11 TT/FR29 arm/ADC magnesium headshell/Coral Sleeping Beauty MC cartridge, RGR 4 preamp, Sumo Andromeda amp, DCM Time Windows (52779,52780), Mitsubishi DA-F10 tuner. SUT is new and custom-made. Speaker wire is Q Audio Time Stream from the 80's. CD player is a 1997 Marantz CD67. The overall SQ is competitive with any of today's five-figure systems!