RCA Stereo Roundie near Boston but for a price.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by compucat

I think the only way these huge combos would be practical to own is to have it as one's main entertainment unit in the livingroom. Practically all the large sets we collect today were intended as solo pieces of furniture in a room. Most of us collect TVs and radios the way others collect coins or stamps thus making larger peices less desireable because of the sheer sqare footage needed to store, display and use them. I would love to restore and use a Zenith roundie combo or a Manavox Astrosonic but I would have to throw out our entertainment cabinet and solid state SPC TV and the wife would never go for that.

A good friend of mine has an entertainment center with his stereo system, TV, VCR, etc. and I swear, the entertainment center must be seven feet tall. My friend lives in a large house with an equally large living room; the ceilings are perhaps eight feet high or more. His entertainment center goes from the floor to close to the ceiling. It's a good thing his house is as big as it is (he lives in a rural area east of Cleveland); if he were still living in the city (he and I grew up together in a Cleveland suburb), he would never have had the room for anything as large as the entertainment unit I just described.

Is your living room really that small that a roundie TV or combo unit wouldn't fit? I could understand your situation if you lived in an apartment (I live in a very small one-bedroom unit and certainly have no room for consoles here, as I had when I lived in a three-bedroom house with a basement in the suburbs; my TV and related equipment sit on and in an oak utility cart, and my stereo is on a stand next to my computer), but I can't imagine your living room being that short on space.