Some days are just lucky ones. Such was the day I found a half-century old console stereo at an estate sale. It isn't exactly like the one my parents had, but it's sure close. Today, people stick in ...

Some days are just lucky ones. Such was the day I found a half-century old console stereo at an estate sale. It isn’t exactly like the one my parents had, but it’s sure close. Today, people stick in ...

Some days are just lucky ones. Such was the day I found a half-century old console stereo at an estate sale. It isn’t exactly like the one my parents had, but it’s sure close. Today, people stick in ...

A long time ago, in a sprawling subdivision, far, far away, your parents listened to music on a gigantic record console. Separate audio components were unheard of, let alone fancy component stands ...

When he was but a wee hacker, [WhiskeyDrinker] loved to play with the big console stereo his grandparents had. The idea of a functional piece of furniture always appealed to him, and he decided that ...

While much of modern audio gear is working to become smaller and more portable, that isn’t always the case. As the resurgence in vinyl sales has shown, just because an idea is from the past, that ...

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Back in presumably the early 1960s, [David]’s grandfather bought a console stereo featuring a record player, AM/FM radio and a rather astounding stereo speaker system that would be more than enough to ...