I saw the back of an integrated and it depressed me.


Recently took a look at an ad for a Technics SU-G700M2 integrated amplifier, and honestly it made me a little sad for me, my hobby and the gear I ended up with.

When I "wore a younger man's shoes" I needed inputs! I was going to have a turntable, a Tandberg reel to reel and cassette player, and that new fangled CD player would be there as well. 

This new integrated has 5 digital inputs and 2 analog inputs... and anyway I just want to drink while playing Billy Joel radio on my Roon streamer.

erik_squires

What awaits in the 21st century won't include seafood (other than farm grown...maybe), most current waterfront towns, birds, smokeless air...brain implants? There will be fewer people so there's that.

@nonoise ....It's always a slow daze Somewhere....

I just never seem to be There ever....cursing at being apparently cursed....😒

Anyway.....

@ Dear Friends.....Yes, there seems to be a dearth of anal IMEAN Analog inputs on the current trends...
If one peruses the back flank of the current AV multi-pound (weight, not currency) deceiver there are more f/m inputs than the Chicken Ranch of TX and ZZT infamy could conceive NO desire....(more to the 'point', yes...).

Precisely Why......I've kept my 6x6 analog matrix switchbox...

...and the more or less semi-sorta-sota digital av digital + analog switcher as well.

I will take them to the Next Unreality with me.

Don't bother digging.

I'm going to be dissolved, and poured into the French Broad River.

In a relative(ly) short time span I Will Be Everywhere on this planet.

You will be able to look to the cloud above you constantly.

Just desserts... Make mine whine with a 'left-handed twist' non-cigar...pulease... ;)

@tony1954 
 
you really have to join the 21st centuryvideo is no different than audio in that getting the highest possible quality is a worthy endeavour.”

Is that so?  

O, thoust eminence, my benefactor tony1954!
But for thy wisdom eternal, and guidance henceforth,
should I be cast to disrepute!

Unfortunately, I anticipated a comment such as yours.  
I opted to post my relevant-to-the-OP anecdote anyway under the (apparently naive) notion that maybe, just maybe, people wouldn’t be so predictably douchey.

Congrats on being “that guy.”

 

 

 

@tylermunns 

The fact that you anticipated this response can only be seen as a validation of its accuracy.