Good old hifi stereo audio in the 1970s!

I have wondered, if some of you remember, back in te 70´s the stereo equipment
should have speakers with a decent size that did provide a good sound.
Somewhere since the early 90s or late 80s, speakers got more plastic, smaller and smaller and today there are few people who have even decent stereos nor speakers. Smaller speakers are common today and indeed the quality and sound is not as good as decades ago.

Back then I guess people listened to music more dedicatedly than nowadays. You had to pay for music then. Of course you could listen at the radio but among those who had, few could afford good tape recorders or cassette decks that recorded with good quality though most people, as today, didn´t care very much.
So in those days, most speakers were infact better than today and though tape recorders had (and always have, more or less) some flutter, a rounded frequency range and some distortion, I think the overall sound was better.

So today, cd (since 25 years soon!) and mp3 have no distortion and a full frequency range. But small and poor speakers.

There is an exception for mp3, those using 128k. Can´t understand that, must be >160k in order to sound ok.

I read in a magazine that 2 channel stereo is on the way back as reported from an audio/home stereo exhibition. For a decade or so, dolby prologic etc has been the thing.