alteclipsch
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Me too--those were great days. I can't go into a Best Buy anymore, it's just too much glitz and hype.Jeez, you guys got me digging up all that forgotten mis-spent youth now.
BTW, Midwest Stereo was near Ridgedale Mall.
Me too--those were great days. I can't go into a Best Buy anymore, it's just too much glitz and hype.Jeez, you guys got me digging up all that forgotten mis-spent youth now.
Start with one of the original Lafayette Electronics in Boston (actually, Allston I think). Then worked for Tech HIFI, mostly in Boston but got to work for short times in Paramus NJ and Detroit. However, most respected HIFI store for me was Suffolk Audio (first in Boston, then Cambridge then gone....) They new their stuff. They were the first with a lot of the English HIFI (KEF, Celestion, B&W in the area, and were active at BAS (Boston Audio Society).
Also important in the 70's - Audio Lab, Demambro, Tweeter, K&L (started in a former gas station in Watertown) Nantucket sound, Lectra City, Cramer (later Cramer/Olson) Minuteman Radio, Lechmere Sales, and then some "invaders - ACL later Atlantis sound, Fretter and Highland Appliance.
I also really liked Q audio (still active, I believe, with some internet presence.
This thread is making feel my age...
I miss:
Meyer-EMCO
Audio Associates
The Audiophile
Excalibur
Audio Specialists/Atlantissound
Sound Gallery
Needle in a Haystack
Lafayette Electronics
Radio Shack
German Electronics
Tower Records
Penguin Feather
Rainbow Tree
Giant Music
Arlington Electronics Warehouse
What used to bring us together now sets us apart, as freaks.While I do miss some of the local Radio Shacks and HiFi Buys, more than anything I miss audio being more mainstream. It seems as though years ago nearly everyone owned a component system and understood caring for vinyl, etc.
Music Craft.. Lombard IL.
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I had an unsatisfactory experience the last time I was at HiFi Sound. Enough so that I emailed the proprietor about it. Never heard back, not going back. OTOH, I have nothing but good things to say about Audio Perfection, Stereoland and Halsten.HiFI Sound is still in business in Minneapolis and you can still go there to demo hi end gear , Macintosh, Marantz, paradigm etc, they also repair tube gear great store