This is exactly what it looked like 16 years ago in 2004 https://www.theanalogdept.com/c_miller.htm
30 years ago would be 1991. That was the year I bought my current home, but at the end of the year. In January I was living in a 800 sq ft 2BR condo. The "living room" was more like a rectangular "living space" with kitchen at one end, then dinner table, and "living room" with a sliding glass door at the end opposite the kitchen.
The system was your typical rack thing with my trusty 1974 Kenwood KA-8004 integrated amp driving 1974 JBL L25 Jubal. Yellow and orange, in case you were wondering. There was a JVC HiFi VCR, lamp cord, patch cords, and the one SOTA feature was the hard wired power cords.
That's a joke, son.
There was also a Technics SL-1700 DD turntable, but in this living situation that was stored away in a box. My listening was all MTV TV and HiFi VCR. Had CDs but no CD player. What I did was lug my VCR to a friend, dub CDs to tape, listen to tape.
Now if you had asked about 20 years ago, how I wish there were pics of that! Imagine the current listening room above, only no paint, no sheetrock even, just house wrap, with an old recycled plank of wood across cinder blocks. My first upgrade from the Kenwood, McCormack DNA1, went on that plank. Oh how I wish I had pictures of that!
30 years ago would be 1991. That was the year I bought my current home, but at the end of the year. In January I was living in a 800 sq ft 2BR condo. The "living room" was more like a rectangular "living space" with kitchen at one end, then dinner table, and "living room" with a sliding glass door at the end opposite the kitchen.
The system was your typical rack thing with my trusty 1974 Kenwood KA-8004 integrated amp driving 1974 JBL L25 Jubal. Yellow and orange, in case you were wondering. There was a JVC HiFi VCR, lamp cord, patch cords, and the one SOTA feature was the hard wired power cords.
That's a joke, son.
There was also a Technics SL-1700 DD turntable, but in this living situation that was stored away in a box. My listening was all MTV TV and HiFi VCR. Had CDs but no CD player. What I did was lug my VCR to a friend, dub CDs to tape, listen to tape.
Now if you had asked about 20 years ago, how I wish there were pics of that! Imagine the current listening room above, only no paint, no sheetrock even, just house wrap, with an old recycled plank of wood across cinder blocks. My first upgrade from the Kenwood, McCormack DNA1, went on that plank. Oh how I wish I had pictures of that!
