Hovering the mouse pointer/arrow over the image centered between the volume and tuning knobs brought a little box saying “Grundig”
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The modern console with tubes, turntable, streaming as well as a built in hidden subwoofer.
$20k!! 
About $1,750 in 1950 dollars. 
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Grundig Model 5060 circa 56 - 57. And I’ll bet some one took pride puttin that thing together never knowing that some 60 odd years later it’d be in mint condition still working somewhere in Canada…
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Thanks pikpen…
In the day I was fortunate to see a wide assortment of Telefunken, Grundig,
Philips and Simens consoles…The craftsmanship and engineering on these was
was gorgeous…the sound quality was an whole 'nother level…very impressive.
Got to see and hear them at the AF Base Exchange …unforgetable…
The old days when base exchanges carried good stuff like Carver and such. Now it is all just junk.
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Handmade in the US does not come cheap. They do offer some great looking ‘racks’ pun intended and record storage for more modest prices as well as equipment packages with KEF speakers 
Wrensilva makes beautiful and expensive cabinets too. They build around Sonos though which I know many people have…issues with.
Gee Umiami…you must be younger 'n me. I must say though… these go way back even before Carver or Phase Linear…
But yes indeed
I am a ripe 51. But never got the opportunity to serve overseas beyond active war zones, and their BXs weren’t the best. Lol. They didn’t carry the finest brands.
All the good stuff got phased out of stateside exchanges when I was a mere 2Lt. I just got to hear the stories and see the older catalogs with good stuff that I couldn’t yet afford.
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You young whiffer snaffer you…yet back in my day the
BX was large like a department store…almost a city block.
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When in the rotator back from Afghanistan, we got delayed at Ramstein so we got to wander around the BX attached to the terminal. There was a Birkenstock store there. I definitely took advantage of that. But otherwise there wasn’t much I could fit in my carry-on.
If I recall, there was one BX I went into in Iraq that had a tube headphone amplifier. I didn’t get it though because it wasn’t amenable to being shipped home in one piece.
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I hear ya pal…so close but so out reach in practical terms
The old AF base was Torrejon outside of Madrid Spain.
No longer ours, but the runway and the old o pool is still there.
The BX was off base and served a large area and embassy employees.
These were the days of B47s, Sabre F86s the F100 had just come in there…
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Classic jets all. I built plenty of models of those. Plus my B-58. I love those days when we were fielding new jets every couple years. Simpler times. I worked on the F-35 program. Over 25 years from concept to FOC. Too long.
You might be an audiophile though. Yeah. Back on topic, baby!!
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Proud to have met you Umiami…
You probly know that Jeff Sprey former F-16 jockey bad mouthed the F35 to
Congress…only to be shown how wrong he was when Red flag a couple years later
the f35s as agressors wiped the sky of best 4th gen aircraft 12 or more to 1.
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Yep back to topic
You are probably a record collector if you check the record storage solutions. Not so much for buying - you know that they wouldn’t hold enough records anyway - but to see if you can identify all record covers in the marketing photos.
I’m guessing/hoping that a significant portion of the cost is isolation of the TT from the sub and speakers…