I don’t remember if it had a push button tranny, although the newly-introduced Edsels did.
The first stereo I ever heard was in the early fifties when two radio stations broadcast the two different stereo tracks of a song. We sat down between two radios to listen and marvel.
I suppose my favorite stereo was purchased in the mid-sixties and was comprised of a pair of black and white cubes about two feet to a side. Each cube was on roller wheels and painted to look like a die, so it looked like a large pair of dice. The cubes could be moved independent of each other, only connected by wiring. Each cube had one speaker while one had a top that lifted up to reveal a turntable and the other lifted up for record storage. I would get stoned, lie down between the two speakers, and listen to Richard Burton performing Hamlet.
Graduated from HS in the 60’s and as an ‘adult’ found Richard Burton in his performance of Camelot. Still have the LP of his songs sung in his performance. You must be much more high brow than I :-) as to his actual performance he wasn’t seen until he filmed Where Eagles Dare That film was a favorite to be seen again and again. *perhaps because of Clint Eastwood?* Not even Cleopatra was a close second. Sandpiper was seen and soon forgotten.