I once priced an all radio shack system that was way up there with the best of them. I think it was $999.99 or something that included a rack for all of the components. I bought during the annual christmas sale so I get it for a steal. The salesman said it was state of the art and I believe him! I think Stereophile reviewed the system also. Anyway the bass went boom, boom, boom and the tweeter had a lot of music coming from it and so did the 4" mid range driver. The speakers were beautiful wood veneer that matched my living room wall paper. I used to keep my goldfish bowl on top of one of the speakers as that tweak really improved the sound. I had a 10 pound weight on the other to even things out some. My girl friend at the time really dug the system too. Man she was a beaut, the system as well as the girl. I think the tuner could even get AM stations and that was such a important issue for me, gotta have my talk radio, I hate only listening to music stations with so many commercials. I think it had a turntable too with a realistic phono cartridge. Man did the vinyl on that system sound so real, better then digital CDs. I think the system even came with one of those dual tape decks so that I could copy music and duplicate the cassettes and sell them on Ebay for a profit thereby I could pay for the system with the profits in about one year. All of the people who heard the system told me it was the best they ever heard and after a keg, it sounded even better. The imaging was great right before you'd pass out and lay on the floor in front of those big boxy speakers, I always took the grill cloths off when doing serious listening and stuck my head right between them at full volume. Man could those babies play real loud. Yeah it sure was a beautiful thing, but I had to recently downsize the system to a Bose wave radio because I needed the money but when I get it back together, I am going to get on Ebay and buy me that system back.
Happy Listening.
Happy Listening.