Robert
Tapehead
Always enjoyed my visits to the London branch, which usually ended in everyone heading for the pub after the dem.
Naim Solstice officially unveiled . . .
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Always enjoyed my visits to the London branch, which usually ended in everyone heading for the pub after the dem.
flatpopely
Prog Rock/Moderator
Yup, bought my LP12 in York from Hamish in ‘87 IIRC.
yuckyamson
pfm Member
Honestly, it's all a blur now. just one big blur. I miss Hifi shops and the pace they brought to life. I think the biggest function a good hifi shop served was to allow men a chance to cut-out of everything, perhaps once a month or once a fortnight, and take a few hours to just relax on a couch, hear some music, and blow off some steam without much social pressure.
Anyway...yeah.
Craig B
Re:trophile
I hear you, Jeff. I miss the old shop. It may have been before your time, but I worked next door (back office upstairs) for a number of years. We were grey marketing cars across the boarder into the US; lots of high end rides. I used to tease your Dad that we could get him into something nicer than whatever he happened to be driving at the time, and he used to come back with how he couldn't afford to be receiving stolen goods! Happy days.
martin dawson
pfm Member
I used to go there from when they opened I think 1983 till the closed bought my 32, Snaps, 250 and DMS Isobariks and the Sound Organisation tables. Later the 32 was then 32.5 and Hi-Cap and Derek looked after the LP 12 still kept in touch with him ever since a true genius on an LP 12 or any turntable.
Sorely missed by me and many others.
Regards,
Martin
wylton
Naim and Mana member
Yes, I met Derek at the Audio Venue, Crystal palace & the subsequently at the Sound Organisation & Infidelity.
Nye Samuel
Herr Katze
Infidelity? Was that the shop in Middlesex Street E1. Just off Bishopsgate? If it is not Infidelity, what was it called as I have forgotten its name.
pocketkitchen
Registered User
No, Infidelity is at Hampton Wick, near Kingston.
Nye Samuel
Herr Katze
Thanks...i knew there is a shop called Infidelity in Hampton Wick but one of the chaps who ran SO in the Borough definitely moved to a hifi shop in Middlesex Street...the name of which I forget...they were not there long.
pocketkitchen
Registered User
The guy who owned the shop was Steve Daniels and he eventually ended up as Rega’s US distributor. I don’t know about Middlesex St though. I don’t know much about that London in that era. Presumably the beer was still headless and it was just as forbidden to make eye contact on the tube…
Stemcor
I should be listening to music
That brought back some memories. I used to work a couple of minutes away from the S.O. I’ve lost count of the number of late nights after a few in the Market Porter with Roger.
linnfomaniac83
I bet you can’t wheelie a unicycle!
New Puck!I wonder how long before Naim release the obligatory record clamp. That McClamp looks like a large-sized version of the one in my old Naim CDP.
Craig B
Re:trophile
Says to McDealer...New Puck!
"No thanks, I'll stick to my old Planar and a green lava lamp."
vicdiaz
Just another analog freak...
Oh flashback!!! Spent countless nights drinking whisky with Steve when he was at Linn and visited us while I worked for my local Linn dealer (Precision Audio, Inc.) back in the mid-80s!
SCIDB
Triode Man
joe9407
actress/activist
Thanks for posting this! It was a good read. Without knowing the reviewer's proclivities, I think it augurs well for the Solstice that he frames his impression of the TT around people he's known and good times he's had listening to records.
I just wish the thing didn't look like a robot cake.