The Future of HiFI?

Fisher Consoles.

Please note that the President console's $2,495 price in 1958 is equivalent to approximately $22,000 today.

The downside of most consoles were their loudspeakers.  Both the quality of components and the difficulty or impossibility of optimizing them for location in the listening room.  In a modern console the latter issue can be overcome with DSP tech.  Controlled dispersion as used by B&O, Kii and others should enable consoles to produce large and spacious soundscapes.

I saw one of these in my neighborhood Vinyl Record Shop With matching speakers.
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I was brought up in a house full of herman miller furniture. I had no idea we were hipsters :-). We also had a console. The only music my father seemed to like was Hawaiian. Later that console was turned on to Led Zeppelin. He hated that, LOL.  

I still want a Paragon. :-)

+1 ibmjunkman! :-)