I forgot to add:
In the 80s I had put an alpine tape player in my pickup truck, the sound of which was outa this world, just mesmerizing...
even with only 2 speakers way down towards the bottom of the doors.
one evening as I pulled in the garage the local public radio was doing a live music session, and I just sat there transfixed for 45 minutes, in total bliss...I'm sure my very close proximity to the station and their tens of thousands of watts of power had a lot to do with it, but still in a lesser system you probably wouldn't have had the same experience.
that was before someone broke into my next car, smashed the dash and snatched this player from it.Bastard, that was the crime of the century...
My cd system now, even with an external 300w amp, doesn't come anywhere close to that unit. I'm sure having only two speakers has a lot to do with it, but the sound of tapes in that unit was just something else...
One thing though, was leaving tapes in the glove box, oh they would become mushy sort of a bad bad techno music... But we all did that, didn't we?
@uberwaltz
I'm guessing in those days almost all who had them listened to their record player while driving.
Records were dirt cheap, and the majority of folks were not sophisticated or Audiophiles etc., or their teenage kids showing of Elvis to their buddies...
But yeah,
while parked looking at the sunsets or a river, mountain or the ocean I'm pretty sure lots of folks were doing their contributions to the boomer explosion... -:)