Portable stereo audio apparatus

A portable stereo audio apparatus having a main cabinet including a bottom side, a top side and enclosing side walls for housing the stereo electronics, a pair of auxiliary cabinets for housing the speakers for the stereo apparatus, each speaker cabinet adapted to support at least one loud speaker and to be hinged to an edge of the main cabinet so as to be supported, when not in use, on the top side of the main cabinet and when in use on the left side and right side of the main cabinet, respectively, hinge means for hinging the left side speaker cabinet of said speaker cabinet at its lower left edge to an upper left edge of said main cabinet and the right side speaker cabinet at its lower right edge to the upper right edge of said cabinet, whereby the apparatus may be used as a stereophonic system by rotating said speaker cabinets about the hinges to locate them one at either side of said main cabinet to be apart from each other by the width of said main cabinet, each speaker cabinet being one half the width of the main cabinet, the width being defined as the distance between the upper edges of said main cabinet, each of said speaker cabinets including gripping means on the edge diagonal to the hinged edge thereof, so that the respective gripping means of said speaker cabinets are positioned adjacent to each other when the speaker cabinets are positioned on top of said main cabinet and cooperate with each other to form a handle grip member for toting the apparatus.