Audio Specialist Repair Shop Interview | Howard Bardach & Jack Matson 

So sweet of you to record these techs. As a 43 year amp tech myself, I love to hear the old timers talk shop. Thank you.

Thanks for listening to us older folks. I just lost my 89 year old Mom on the 18th of July, and I made sure to listen to each and every one of her stories, because I never knew when it would be the last time hearing them.

It takes a rare person to drool over those shelves of audio gear. I'm proud to be one of them, lol Great new series, Colleen! Looking forward to more.

Loved this interview! Great idea for a regular segment 👍🏻

Wow!! Another great video from Colleen!! Perfect in every way for a 74 year old geezer like myself....Thanks so much!!

This was a great interview segment, congratulations. I love how you allowed them to tell their stories, it was warm and personable. Coincidentally it’s the anniversary week of my dad’s passing and I felt a connection to the story of learning from your father all the way to coping with their gradual decline and loss. Now I have to go play something loud on my turntable that my dad hated but tolerated, in my case it was Rocket To Russia (my dad knew Andy Williams as a young man, btw). Thank you for flooding me with a wonderful vibe of memories. :-)

Big fan of Howard and audio specialist. They brought my grandfather’s fisher 500b back to life last year. It’s been performing beautifully ever since!

22:10 reminds me that both Big Clive and Mr Carlsons Lab have recently posted RU-vid videos about close brushes with death while repairing electrical or electronic equipment.

🎉 thank you so much for posting, FANTASTIC ❤🎉

I love it when things get repaired.

What a fantastic interview!. A couple of cool dudes. I am over 70yo, and all this stuff is dear to my heart or I wouldn't be a subscriber. Thanks for a pleasurable half-hour. Makes me think I should be telling more stories myself.

Really wonderful journey through the interview and related stories and Lady C., you are beautifully adorable. Thank you for sharing you talents and passion for repairing cool old amplifiers. More of you, please.

Great interviews, Colleen. I love learning from and working with people like this, but unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of them around.

I love how you pay homage to those guys. You’re an inspiration to a lot of people.

Incredibly inspiring! Thanks Fazio for the chance to hear their stories and history!

"...burns, cuts" (and marvelous electric shocks of varying degrees )

My god 😮... I've never seen such a collection of vintage audio gear ... I would panic if I had all those things to fix .!!

You have an inherent talent w interviews like this. Not only from your perspective in electronics but your interview style gets the interviewee to open up wonderfully. Could you look into other interview prospects, say former giants in the audio industry still alive? This stuff needs as much documenting as possible and your perfect for it!

wow right up my alley I dont have the equipment to fix the stuff I have hoarded over the years ,Tubes Receivers ,guitar amps and old projectors and cameras ,time to fire up 1 of my old stereo receivers and clean up the pots which mostly is the issue with alot of it ,thanks Colleen really enjoyed this !!!

I wish I could have these guys rejuvenate my Berlant Concertone reel-to-reel tape recorder! Thanks for the excellent field report! (y)

Great video! It's refreshing to know there are still people who have a love of learning and discovering how things work. Love what you do and do what you love.

I spent five years as a service tech at Carver in the 90s. It was a great job and I learned so much.

Hey Colleen! I am catching up on the Truth About Vintage Amps podcast and was so happy to hear you on episode 44! You held your own with Skip (he can talk, huh?). Jason got you some good questions in. It was a lot of fun to listen to. Rock on girl!

Fantastic interview..

That was just fantastic! Thank you.

That was really interesting and fun to watch.

Enjoying this a lot! I’ll take either of those 2270s too. ☺️

This has just charmed the pants off me as I'm sure your subjects as well ...amazing (!)

Wow! That's interesting and I love seeing a shop with all that old audio gear. I could spend a whole day in there just poking around, getting in the way, and talking. I got started in Jr High in the electronics section too with seeing and reading all the cool books in that section. In high school electronics class we had a really great teacher that taught us how to repair tube type TV's and amps. Along with the class mandated theory and talking people into letting us fix their TV's, he would teach how to actually use the test equipment, guide us and even get SAMS photofact manuals if it was something we didn't already have one for. I never went into repair but it always gave me a good base to understand other electrical and programming theory. I will always be grateful for someone willing to teach and pass on such interesting knowledge.

I loved it when he talked about the 'religious' experience going to the records store once a week. Oh, yeah. I can relate to that. Kids today miss so much while being fed music by an algorithm in spotify etc. There was so much excitement back then.

Colleen i love your new series. It brings back memories of hanging around the local electronics store following my moms friend who repaired only tube radios and tv's. I love learning from the veteran techs. Its where my love for fixing or restoring power amps and guitar amps came from at an amateur level.

Great Video!! That shop is historical!!! Should probably hire someone (if you can still find someone) to just work on refurbishing equipment to sell the vast inventory he has. Easier said than done, I know. Love that shop though.

One of the best interviews I've seen.Interesting as hell.

This was an amazing interview. I would love to see more of this type of video from you, simply because, how many of these old timers do we still have around? Fascinating stories, and they still are deep into it. I am barely becoming competent, but the fascination is the driver, not the dough, as your interviewee made several points of.

please C, keep going on with these interviews!

MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS! Thank you Colleen 😊

Great video!! We had Lord Valve aka Fat Willie on south Broadway in Denver who's store was just like that. I've both worked as a technician since '84 and then as an engineer since '97. I've been building tube amps for 25 years. I fixed amps for a music store independently 20 years ago when I was between jobs, so much junk that nobody wanted to pay for...

Great interview! Cool stories too.

I love your repair videos, but these interviews are awesome - such great insight from a golden era of electronics :)

I’m old enough to not only remember those vintage hi-fi brands and components, I ended up working on a lot of them as I got in to vintage amp repair as I progressed down my road to audio nirvana. Great video and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Colleen..Kudos..!

Refreshing. I enjoyed this video a lot. Thanks for posting.

Great stuff, love it. Their knowledge is priceless as is yours Fazio. Keeping the vintage alive is so important in my eyes. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ gets five stars and a 👍

What a GREAT interview!! So entertaining and just grabbed my attention!! Refreshing!! : )

Very cool you should interview GTS

I love this stuff!

This is the first video you release since i subscribed to your channel. You can't imagine how happy i was when watching you all talking. I have to say this is just an amazing video. You did an awesome job. The video felt like it's only 5 mins long, the sign of a great job. Please more of that series. Are you familiar with Fran Blanche? Would be killer having her on the series. Anyway, wish you all the best. Take Care 😊

Nice interview Colleen ... We need more ... Thx

There is a lot of history and knowledge in that shop. I am looking across my room right now at a 70s Pioneer receiver and turntable that need servicing. If I was in LA, I would be heading over there right now. Thanks for sharing.

lovelly talking..years of knowledge.....cheers Rio / Brazil

That was very nice! I was a teenager in the 60s and an audiophile, so this was quite a trip down memory lane. I well recall the Empire Troubadours and I remember being intrigued by the Marantz SLT-12 turntable way back then. I finally got to see one in the flesh very recently at Ring Audio Service, a shop around here that is so very similar to Howard's. Fifty years to scratch that off the bucket list! Entering these places truly feels like time travel.

Can you please share your opinion on the Bedini range of audio amplifiers.

Awesome video This is definitely 💯% great👍👍👍👍👍

This is a great interview. Thanks for doing this.

Great job 👏 the world still has guys like you both ...very cool

Fantastic video! And now I know where to take my stereo for repairs!

Right on, Colleen. (: Great idea(s)! Kudos + thanks for sharing w/us.

Great interview, very interesting what this guys have to share with us. Thank you.

These guys are wonderful,great interview!

These guys know their stuff.

I want to buy a stereo from this guy ! Something powerful , loud ,and great .

Awesome idea! Wonderful interview.

Colleen thanks This was “ real “ an interview that was genuine and really interesting Thanks for doing this Keep these going if you can ❤️x ( please ?)

Their hanging in there, baby! If you know what I'm talking about.

Awesome interview Colleen! More please!

I love the old audio equipment. Nothing else compares. Great interview!

should've known you guys would use a cute lil mic like that haha

great content on an interesting subject. Yeah as a kid I learned how to change tubes in the tv set in my room pretty young when it went south. Thanks!

this is so great....funny,interesting and fun !!!!!!! great work !!!!

I'm no doctor but I can say with certainty that everyone in this video has "the Knack"!

Hey Colleen. Have you ever done any conversions of tube radios or tube projectors to guitar amps?

Amazing video!!

Интересно было слушать историю двух любителей радиоэлектроники от прекрасной Леди.

Hell yes a great video 👏👏

Oh hell yea, this is neat. I would also like to ask the old-heads questions like "what's the weirdest thing you've ever fixed?" "who was your worst client?" "what's your favorite tricks for repair or design or engineering that maybe other people might not know?"

great interview … thanks!

Cool thanks

Love this! Thanks for sharing.

Great video.

this is great!

Just a quick ask, could you provide contact info on the business you interview. I'm actually going to look up this fellow because I've inherited a great old stereo system but I know I should not just fire it up out of the blue after 25 years of not being turned on at all. It probably needs some recapping too since it's original 70s components. (Concept 5.5 etc)

great show!

glad this is becoming a series. i'm only a musician, but want to learn more. (ya know. it seems like albini lets anyone interview him. just sayin lol.)

Love the mic.

Seems like they're saving those parts of the world most people forgot... Where are they located: Contact info etc?

this is great - but don't lose your touch on repairing -- you're good at that too ... but - again - this is great ...

Is this guy related to William Devane? Sounds like him.

is that dual meter Marantz a cali or japan model, my favorite vintage audio is Marantz, the cali wheels .. love it

.. hmmm yeah .. you need to love what you do .. have pride and be proud of each accomplishment .. then it wouldn't feel like 'work' at all

Have you ever told the story of how you got into amp repair?

😀

Can't actually read the label but it's obviously _Reprise_ ; Neil Young...?

Do you have a video about installing a speaker out on an old tube amp that doesn’t have a 3/4” speaker out?

It's a shame that these guys and this style of business has become "boutique." This used to be the standard and needs to be again.

.. Andy Williams .. hmmm .. 'Love Story'? 😬

Wireless lapel mics are great. Just saying. 😃

And guess what? You don't have to download an app, or have internet access for these devices to work! LOL.

I'm not trying to minimize this dude's work or knowledge but saying today's stuff is not fixable, it's a bit over the top! it might not be fixable with old technics and tools but damn sure people fix some kind of complex electronics these days which blows my mind, just do some research on VGA repairs or RU-vid and you know the time has changed, they repair broken trace 15 layers deep into PCB and so many other fantastic repairs which if you don't see, you wouldn't belive it even possible!

I can see from the comments that you never reply. Why bother creating a channel if you don't care about the viewers' comments and opinions! It's so disappointing and discouraging to subscribe