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The BIG Picture Review says:

Forget your old way of thinking about home audio.

During the 1960′s, consoles were all the rage. Huge, bulky pieces of furniture in which everything was integrated, including typically, the speakers. My parents were quite proud of the Harmon Karden console they scrimped and saved up enough money to buy. It was of course, tube-driven, but featured some sort of neat and eclectic features like phase-shifting, which I thought was pretty cool. I’ve got great memories of pretending to be a DJ while playing records on that thing. The speakers were huge and it made a big sound.

Then, in the 1970′s, everything became “transistorized”. Tubes were no longer in fashion and solid-state components became all the rage. Separate tuners, amps and turntables dominated the scene and unless you wanted to be considered a part of the aurel stone-age, you loaded up with those separate components. I know I certainly did…more