You may have no taste in furniture Charlie, but you sure as hell made me laugh.
Possibly one of the reasons console systems have disappeared is TV. I have 3 main audio systems, each has a screen at its centre. Everything is improvised about the installations, technology changes so rapidly. We have cable, satellite and terrestrial DTV and disk players, computers, tablets and mobiles, there's Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet in every room and a NAS that I can access from anywhere with a phone signal. The TVs are effectively the source switches and tone and volume controls.
This way we get to run everything with just 2 or 3 remotes.
Just saying, the case for separates.
Possibly one of the reasons console systems have disappeared is TV. I have 3 main audio systems, each has a screen at its centre. Everything is improvised about the installations, technology changes so rapidly. We have cable, satellite and terrestrial DTV and disk players, computers, tablets and mobiles, there's Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet in every room and a NAS that I can access from anywhere with a phone signal. The TVs are effectively the source switches and tone and volume controls.
This way we get to run everything with just 2 or 3 remotes.
Just saying, the case for separates.
Here's a modern take on it.
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My father built a console stereo similar to above back in '67. The top was an unfinished solid core door. On the front center was a panel on roller guides that opened to expose an old EV turntable amp combo that he'd repurposed from a portable. It had 12" alnico woofers mounted on the ends, sealed mids and a horn tweeters on the front and it didnt sound bad. As I recall he had issue with the top rattling before it was permanently attached.
There were a few issues like starting a record and closing it up. Unless perfect would cause records to skip. Later he chopped off the legs (bad idea) so it would rest directly on the floor. So unless you were laying on the floor in front of it or completely on the far side of the room it killed off the highs. Think the later was done in '74 when we moved to a new house. My kid brother ended up with it but scrapped the guts and used as a coffee table in his first apartment.
There were a few issues like starting a record and closing it up. Unless perfect would cause records to skip. Later he chopped off the legs (bad idea) so it would rest directly on the floor. So unless you were laying on the floor in front of it or completely on the far side of the room it killed off the highs. Think the later was done in '74 when we moved to a new house. My kid brother ended up with it but scrapped the guts and used as a coffee table in his first apartment.
Pretty sweet! Love the look of this. My earliest memories of enjoying music involve perching myself in front of an Zenith console listening to Motown on AM radio just outside of Detroit.
These are the last consoles I can recall. Separate large speakers with a central electronics console, though of course could be made as one huge piece of furniture: http://www.lansingheritage.org/images/altec/catalogs/1971-home/page14.jpg
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