1973

You put them in nets so you don't have to put them on a shelf or on the floor. Many positioning options hanging from the ceiling in nets (they must be smaller two-ways). I, also, had my AR reissue turntable on a suspended platform hanging from the ceiling. Worked well...

West coast killer budget sound was a pair of RSL 3600s.  Placed near the corners of the room and suspended from the ceilings by chains.

If you sold some hash that week or were a trust fund baby you night have had (2) pair of Large Advents, stacked. 

Purple Haze and a 17 year old naked blond love affair. Spirit, Dark Eyed Woman. Randy California RIP.

Interesting. Its 1973. I'm 16 in a basement bedroom with some speakers, forget the name but they were bought from Radio Shack. Usually they would go up on a dresser but if placed on the floor the right distance from the walls and you lay on the floor with them pointed right at you they put out pretty good bass and you can play Nilsson Can't Live Without You and Jump Into the Fire and it is just ear-splittingly joyously satisfying!