Stereo lab is a great place ..been around since 1970 . Great employees and inventory have purchased numerous pieces and had others serviced .they are pros
I was there to visit Stereo Lab and was greeted with the same sign that day. They are a fantastic store. Plan another visit. That’s where I found my Sansui AU7500 and TU 7500. I wish we could have met!
1:50 That's hilarious! Although I wasn't born there, I spent most of my formative years in London, Ontario, Canada which is the birthplace of actors Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams ('Sherlock Holmes', 'The Wedding Crashers', etc.), Hume Cronyn ('Cleopatra', 'Conrack', 'Cocoon', etc.), and Victor Garber ('Sleeping in Seattle', 'Titanic', etc.), as well as swing band leader Guy Lombardo (with a bridge named after him in London, Ontario and I bought an original oil painting of his portrait that was once part of the Guy Lombardo Museum in London, Ontario with a copy of the painting seen at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in the bar area of the hotel), and some pop star no one ever heard of named JUSTIN BIEBER. ;)
Lots of well known folks it seems started there. It was nice, I think I saw more Tim Horton restaurants per square mile than any other fast food chain. We enjoyed them quite a few times. :-)
Good one, Scott. If you're in Boise, Idaho .. You'll see many vintage units. I just acquired an upgraded Dyna PAS-2, Tuner and BBC LS3/5A replicas (Gini systems).
Boise! The longest audio gear pickup I've ever done was from there. Took me three days to drive it all home. Beautiful drive though. Lots of vintage audio enthusiasm out your way. Maybe I'll make it out there again at some point.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I really enjoy your channel however, this could’ve been about a five minute video with mainly voiceover and about a minute on your college tour aspect.
When my wife and I travel, I’m always googling for Stereo shops or vintage Hifi. And her reaction is “oh brother” but then on the other hand, I always find a good place to sit while she shops for all kinds of chick stuff while I’m sitting I’m googling for Stereo shops to visit ha ha
If something I really wanted at the right price and if I could fit it into the vehicle, sure thing. You never know if you will run across it again, so you have to buy when you find it.
3:12 Aside from Victoria Park with shops and restaurants nearby and the Budweiser Centre where lots of rock and folk concerts are held, I find downtown London, Ontario to be really ugly and depressing these days with lots of drug addicted scum lurking around not far from the Salvation Army Men's Missions and they have really ruined what downtown London used to be. As a teenager, I would frequently catch a bus from my parents' suburban neighborhood to the downtown area to check out the City Lights Book Shop which had lots of great new and used books, magazines, VHS tapes, etc. and I would go to various music stores and comic bookstores or go to the London Mews mall (now just a parking lot) to see a movie or the Capitol theatre there or visit the Galleria mall, the last of which is mostly devoid of stores these days with lots of vagrants roaming around harassing customers, begging for change, etc. So, it's too bad that London's downtown is not what it used to be and I certainly don't feel safe walking around there anymore. Heck, I'd sooner walk around downtown Toronto with my wallet on my head than downtown London these days. Having said that though, London, Ontario does have some interesting historical areas, many beautiful parks, the oldest baseball diamond in Canada, lots of cosmopolitan restaurants, an excellent university, Western University (formerly the University of Western Ontario) and Fanshawe College also has an excellent reputation, as do the three major hospitals there and the London International Airport is a small, but very manageable airport.
There is quite the homeless problem in the city center, indeed. Even the store owner of Target HiFo commented on the issue. As for Victoria Park, we went there in the evening as they were hosting the annual Ribfest event. The suburbs and surrounding area of London seemed to be very nice, just the downtown, as with many cities, is having issues.
I grew up going to London, in the 90’s it was great, downtown was great with lots of small businesses. In the last 10 years it’s descended into another globalist shithole. “Groves” on Dundas is a great record shop, if you don’t mind navigating all the fentanyl zombies. Many of our best restaurants have had to close down because the homeless issue, it’s really sad.
@@christopher3963, is it Groves or Grooves? I remember Grooves (formerly Dr. Disc) and I really loved that record store with some great bargain bin records too several years ago (five records for $2.50 at that time and I found some amazing records in excellent shape). :)
@@christopher3963 There are some great restaurants in the area. We actually found a very nice sushi place and had some fantastic selections there. We didn't have any ribs at the Ribfest though as we were too full from dinner, but did enjoy some other sweet treats.
With all these videos on here about stuff happening, there should be one like this about nothing happening. Do they still have the Wax Museums in Niagara? Used to be Niagra Falls was THE place to go for your honeymoon. Just how bad has that fallen off? Without the falls themselves what would the town of Niagra be? Pat Metheny has a famous album called.. As Wichita Fall So Does Wichita. What unique music. I don't think I've ever heard music like that. It takes several listens though. What U.S. national landmark moves several inches each year? It's not The Leaning Tower Of Pisa; that's in Italy. Answer Below: The answer is of course Niagra Falls. The constant running water causes erosion, which causes the falls to go backwards several inches each year.
I can report that the place to be is on the Canada side of the falls. Not much to see or do on the U.S. side and that area is quite depressed. LOTS of activities to do and take your money, all fun stuff. The wax "museum" is there, but they must not have paid any royalties as their statues more "resemble" the actual actors, not a great representation. The Xenomorphs from Alien were the best thing in there.
When I was there in my pre teens they had a water faucet hanging 20 feet in the air, apparently defying the laws of gravity. Torrents of running water were coming out of it downward. How could that water fauct be hanging in mid air, and all that water coming downward out of it, without it being connected to anything? Actually it was; there was a hose or tube holding it up, but you couldn't see it for all the water coming down around it, making what was holding the faucet up; invisible
Wow! I can't believe it's still on display. We have an old amusement park around here. That was built around the turn of the century. It's way over a hundred years old. The did mix in a lot of new modern rides, but a lot of it is still the same things that a really old man would recognize if he used to go there in his childhood. They had horse rides all the way up until around 1980 I think. If you were totally unfamiliar, you could navigate your way to the horse rides by your sense of smell. The realistic looking wooden cowboys are still sitting on the benches, and I remember the first time I saw them, being shocked, thinking it was areal cowboy.
@@sidesup8286 I was not clear in my reply, that feature I recall being displayed at Ripley's when I was a kid. It is not on display currently, but they do have a Ripley's at Niagra. I saw it at the original Ripley's (I think it is) in St. Augustine, FL back in the 70's.
So, with this fellow at Target Hi-Fi is so lukewarm on vintage gear, why are you wasting your time? Just for a counter argument to this new obsession on vintage gear for us boomers that are trying to recapture our youth., is Lou Hamilton at Audible Elegance in Cincinnati He suggests most of this gear is nearing the end of its useful life but that if you have a few quality pieces that you maintain and actually use, that's great. But for this stuff sitting on a shelf collecting dust, you would be better served collecting Roseville Pottery. I for one do have a vintage NAD 3020A that I treasure and use and love. But I am currently trying to unload two Advent 300 Receivers. Pretty much done with this endless cycle of recapping everything.
Their website shows vintage gear, so I had no way of knowing their actual feelings about vintage gear before arriving. I had some time, so decided to drop by unannounced. I don't think it is too surprising for places that sell new gear to downplay maintaining older gear. After all, isn't it in their best interest to say that any gear more than 5 years old is now obsolete, time to upgrade?
@@stereoniche Had a feeling my response was a bit abrasive. Yes and no to your arguments. If they have on their website that they, in addition to mostly new gear, also have an interest in quality vintage they could have sort of humored you. I didn't realize you were in North Carolina. I'm in Eastern TN. Have you heard of Cherry Vintage in Greenville SC? Now they walk the walk and talk the talk. I also have become "friends" with Chuck Wroblewski at Chasrock1224 on EBay or Chasrock Services, internet moniker. I have an abiding interest in vintage gear, mostly speakers. I often guide people to a "new" turntable (mechanical device - I truly feel this is not so much the golden age of vinyl as the golden age of turntables). Everything learned from older designs has been honed to the best of the best. But I also feel people can save money, if they are on a fixed budget, on vintage speakers if they shop intelligently. I relistened to your presentation and the proprietor seemed a bit confrontational. "I sell new gear and that's it".
Ah yes Canada, my dad served there during the Vietnam war. Just kidding, that's an old joke. That guy sounds like a tool. I thought Canadians were cool. BTW Wisconsin is nicer. LOL