Some years ago I went to replace my turntable, which was a Radio Shack Lab-17 (a thinly disguised Gerard turntable, actually). The young man at the store kept insisting that Radio Shack had never made a Lab-17. It turned out he was 5 years younger than my turntable.
I replaced it with a Lab-70, which, sadly, can only play 33 1/3 and 45 RPM records, not 78 or 16 rpm discs. I now also have a free-standing turntable that can manage 78 RPMs.
I did eventually replace my humongous speakers with some lovely and almost invisible wall-mounted Boston Acoustic speakers a few years ago, and added in a powered sub-woofer. That was a nice upgrade and a space-saver, too.