Certain items I prefer old. My beloved Kenwood Chefs (mixer,not processor for the rest of the world) the old ones are much better and last much longer and I mean the old ones with the white glass bowls... I have had 2: I sold one which I really regret now when we went off on our attempted world cycle tour, replaced it but then that one had an accident whilst unattended and jumped off the kitchen counter and died) I now have a more modern version which is OK but I can hear the gears slipping already and know it doesn't have many more years left in it.
But somethings are better new. Scales whilst I loved my really old fashioned ones that I put weights on and balanced out, I was very limited by the weights. The modern scales I can change the units much more easily and don't have issues with lifting the weights (since my back went) and also more obviously, it is easier to use any bowl whereas the balance scales are limited to their pan which was a specific weight...
What else? I wouldn't want to be without my high speed blender (Omniblend rather than a Vitamix but same concept).
But my hand-held whisk (egg whisk with double beater that you rotate the handle on) the older the better and we are talking half a century of more. You need the quality in the gears for a good one and modern ones are just cheap and tacky and slip badly. Pick up a decent old one and you know the difference instantly and they are much easier than getting the heavy mixer out when you just want to whisk a couple of eggs nothing more (or cream etc).
