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I hate Dillydipper.

The '60s brought music into our lives, to which we attached the attitude of "that young sound"; digging the hip music, we consumed it with more focus on the rekkids, than the equipment. Since making that psychological bond with the tunes we fell in love on the radio, it was a natural progression to purchase the songs, as well as choosing smaller portable players we could tote around. My brother's machine was this skinny, little rectangle with a handle on the front, and barely any room to fit an arm that could track an LP sitting on the cheap plastic platter. But he didn't use 45's, opting for the entire production cut into an album, sitting it on the floor, sitting cross-legged a couple of feet away, his guitar reachable at arm's length.

Innovation made it posible to buy a stereo disc, and play it on your "record-player", and get mono, with no inherent needle wear. Maybe you borrowed sisters' Association album, and took it downstairs to not have to play it in her room. Maybe you didn't even expect a stereo experience, and suddenly the soundstage was made clear that, there was something else going on in the grooves, and that might have feuled a desire for a fancier rig, for the first time.

What I'm trying to say, is the mindset may have begun to change, from the ergonomic, "party-on-a-tabletop", "bring-your-45's-over" consumption, to the awareness of the experience you might get from swirtching your focus from the record, to the equipment. Your interest morphed from following the bass line or the drum fills or that hiccup in Buddy's voice...to, "hey, let's see what this record does on another machine...". And so your impression of a stack of 45's in a box, were no longer viewed in the plurality, but instead as the singular notion of "your reccord collection" being one thing in and of itself. And then the younger listeners balanced their social "record-party" recreation, with the yearning of getting the equipment to deliver the stereo experience.