This thread reminds me of my salad days - when Rolling Stone magazine started featuring suggested portable stereo configurations in different price ranges. RS would show a photo layout of a pair of bookshelf sized speakers, a stereo receiver, and a turntable. Dual turntables were prominently featured through all price ranges, as I recall. So, you'd save up and put your cash down for Avid speakers, a Marantz receiver, and a Dual turntable, then put all this equipment on the top shelf of a bookcase made out of stacked bricks and plywood. On the shelves below your equipment you would stand up your record albums - in alphabetical order of course - because you bought a lot of albums, man! At Peaches, E.J. Korvettes, Federals, and of course, Harmony House.