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Guess what? We’ll be closed. Ha.

Closed Saturday 7/3, Sunday 7/4, Monday 7/5.

Enjoy the Holiday!

Saturday 5/29/10 we will be open from 12pm til  4:30pm

Sunday and Monday we will be closed. Enjoy your holiday weekend.

BTW…May Ronnie James Dio rock the afterlife…..RIP.

I have some sad news. Roscoe peacefully passed away yesterday at the age of 18+ with family at his side. He was a trooper until the end, always positive and loyal no matter his condition. His last days were spent enjoying the outside, walking and laying in the grass, smelling the wild flowers and the different scents that perfumed his world and warming himself in the sun. He ate his favorite things: raw carrots, granola bars, bacon, ground beef with rice, graham crackers and pie crust.

I first met Roscoe back in 1997 at the no kill animal shelter in Williamsburg, Brooklyn called BARC (Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition). He had been living in one of the cages there for a number of years. I was immediately charmed by Roscoe’s warmth. He was so happy to see me and after a joyful walk he would bury his head in my lap and want to stay there for ever. After a couple of months of walking dogs, I decided to adopt him. He’s been my buddy since.

Nine years ago when I opened the store, Roscoe quickly stepped up and became my business partner, making customers feel relaxed and welcome. He greeted enumerable people as they stepped through the doors. He was patient and quiet while people listened to gear.

I want to thank everyone who gave Roscoe a good pet and spoke kind words to him while they were visiting the shop. I’m sure he will be missed by all. I will miss him dearly.

Steve

Below are some pictures and a video with Roscoe and his friend Jetta taking a walk in the Poconos , music by Count Basie. Enjoy!

We are very excited to add Naim Audio to our line list. They have some of the most musical integrated amplifiers and digital sources available today. They also have some of the most innovative products available on the market. The Uniti all in one player can play CDs on a high quality transport, it can stream internet radio, it has digital inputs as well as analog inputs, it’s wireless and it sounds like separates. Put it in different rooms and you can set up an amazing wireless multi-room system. All for $3,850.

The new HDX hard drive is also here. You can either download your music onto it’s internal hard drive or play CDs just like a normal cd player. There’s an app that allows control with your iphone or ipad.

We also have on display the following items: The new stand alone DAC, the SuperNait integrated amp, the CD5xs with the upgraded Flatcap power supply, the CD5i and the Nait5i. Come by for a listen.

Naim Uniti

HDX Hard Drive Server

You really can’t get better than this little marvel, or should I say big marvel. It is a transport, yes, but it’s unlike any transport ever made. It adjusts and finds the center of every CD so that the laser is always at the optimal 90 degree angle. It’s design at its very best. And the sound, well, each cd has a resolution and immediacy that has to be heard, more analog vibe than digital vibe. There is one power supply for the transport and a power supply for each channel on the Gemini D/A converter. Wonderful.

Brian from Whetstone has to have a  drink after listening to the Shindo Rig.

The magnificent Shindo Lafon GM70 mono amplifiers are here. The newest single ended amplifiers from Shindo Labs, they run at 20 watts per channel in Class A triode.

This is Rick’s jamming system. He built it one brick at a time and ended up with something timeless. He started with the DeVore Gibbon Super Eight loudspeakers. A few months later he added the wonderful Leben 300x EL84 based integrated tube amp. Next came Auditorium 23 speaker cables. A few months later the Rega P5 with a Shelter 501. A year or so went by and he replaced the Rega MC fono with the Leben RS 30Q tube moving magnet phono preamp and a Auditorium 23 103 step-up transformer. A Shindo cable here and there months later. Then a custom sized Box Furniture rack got the system to another sonic and aesthetic level.  Just recently he switched the Rega P5 and Shelter out with the amazing Well Tempered Amadeus GTA and a EMT JSD 6 Super Fine line cartridge. Next up for the coming year is a new Shindo Mr. T Line conditioner. The system has soul!