Is it just me......?

[rwinking]

So I have four real vintage (two of them were severely reliced by me) guitars from 1958 to 71. I have one vintage amp left. So is it just me or do these old guitars just sound better through a really old amp than they do through a copy of a really old amp? Don't get me wrong....I love my Heritage guitars and other guitars from the late 70s and into the 80s. They all sound damn good through an old amp. However, when old amps meet old guitars, there is something magical that happens. My friend has a 50s deluxe and a super. I get the same experience. Perhaps it is confimation bias or something like that. But damn! This is how the guitar and amp combo is meant to sound I believe. It could be that as a kid that is what I heard. And when the amp heats up, there is a certain smell it has that also goes with the sound. I once had a 1996 Prosonic that heated up and had a certain tube-y/tolex smell and sounded really old when it was in the non-gain mode.Somehow my newer amps just miss that certain something. I will not take an old amp on the road for obvious reasons but at least I can get the experience in my studio.

This makes me wish I had an old Marshall or Vox....

[Kuz]

I no longer have any vintage guitars but I do have 4 vintage amps (Brown Face Deluxe, Brown Face Vibrolux, Black Face Vibrolux Reverb, and a Black Face Deluxe Reverb).   

I can't acknowledge that a vintage guitar sounds better through a vintage amp.  But I can confirm, that ANY guitar I own sounds better through my vintage amps verse new amps.  There is a more 3D quality to the vintage amps.  They sound like the sound is coming from 180 degree and don't sound boxy like a lot of newer amps I have played/owned over the years.