Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp


Hi. Anyone has any experience in vintage power amp performance over the new era entry power amp?

I am currently using a Emotiva XPA-3 rated at 200watts per channel. I will have a chance to get a vintage Marantz Model 300 DC vintage power amp. I wonder what difference in performance it will get over my Emotiva.

Anyone has experience with these 2 or maybe similar? The bad thing I know about Marantz is that there's no banana plug connection for speaker cables.. hehe
chaozhoi
Johnyb53,
Of course I can. It can be some old Mac for less than half of price to purchase and restore, Accuphase, Bryston or Classe of the same vintage...
I don't think that Rogue is any better built than above mentioned ever nowdays or past. I don't think that list of components you've listed have something to do with built quality compared to flagship vintage components. I serviced quite a few vintage components and they're much more techi friendly to the 'disposable' modern units. Sound and performance? Forget about speaker terminals or jacks they're all replacable. Bandwidth of clock radio can be specked out from 20hz...20khz or wider so what? Why many folks here say that recording quality was at the top in early to mid-70's? Figure that out cuz I did just by looking at circuit features, input, output stages, adjustments, measuring pins, mounting of elements, avoiding ICs, higher quality of electronic parts (why we all hunt for NOS transistors, tubes, caps?)
I can set up a vast amount of demo vintage rigs that would simply laugh at units you've listed with performance tube or solid-state I don't care.
Electronic parts (capacitors, resistors, printed circuit boards, etc.) are better as time moves on...there are new materials, or construction techniques, etc. that makes these black boxes perform better. Even though there is excellent older stuff, the excellent newer stuff is better.
I'll put my JWN Eico HF-20 rebuilds up against anything under $10,000.00 (for considerably less money) all Point to point wiring with a different circuit but the original Chicago OPT used in the units is legendery and virtually as good as anything used today, nothing like the old vintage iron
I have a pair of conrad johnson Premier V monoblocks that are wonderfully musical. I don’t need their power with my speakers so I use an integrated amp. I think the vintage vs. new audio debate can be thought of as paralleling vintage vs. new cars. There’s no doubt that the technology inside the classic 6os muscle cars can’t be compared with their modern rivals, but that in no way lessons my passion for them. Different strokes for different folks.
I too will put up my Eico HF 22 monos against any amps $10,000 or less.
Metman, I think it's the old vintage Iron too.

The Eico's will blow your hifi mind, I will tell you something else also, I squeezed even more goodness out of the 22's by putting in these great sounding Shuguang 5Z3PAT I got off ebay for $19.99 and free shipping! these thing are stupendous sounding rectifiers!
Also, There is a seller selling matched quads of SHUGUANG VACUUM TUBES 6L6GC RARE COKE BOTTLE, I get them for 21.99 a quad!! and they are great, beating my really good Gold lion KT66 I have and like...I dare you to try them and tell me what you think! I'm in hifif heaven these days.