This is still going to be good sounding stuff, but it is not something to long after unless you used to own it a long time ago and want it because you are being nostalgic.
Around 1998 or so, Audio magazine did an exhaustive review of the current Marantz's faithful recreations of Saul Marantz's best pre and amp ever. They cost about $11-12K for the pair and were created almost exactly as the originals. Where the exact parts could not be had, they replaced them with new ones that met or exceded their predicesors.
These were lovingly created, statement products that very few companies that were a few layers removed from their origins would do.
The printed review was 8 or 9 pages long.
In the end, this legendary duo did not surpass anything that was currently made at that time. In fact, the thought by the reviewer, if I remember it correctly was, "Meh!"
It sounded good, but was not transcendent (as very person who'd once heard it 30 years prior had claimed). The measured performance was good, but not great by modern standards. None of this is surprising.
Again, this old stuff will sound very nice, but it is no longer high fidelity.
There is a myth about Damascus Steel. I don't believe it.