The interest in stereo equipment coincides with a rebirth of the vinyl record and an aesthetic – largely driven by Millennials
In a society enamored by the next newest thing, there are still people who like their books on paper, prefer their thank-you notes handwritten, would rather talk to people than interact with bots, and like their music on vinyl records, played on a turntable through a pre-amp and amp with real visible tubes, housed in furniture specifically made to hold audio equipment and heard through speakers the size of an apartment refrigerator.
So, he decided to strip and refinish the cabinetry and hunted for missing internal parts, which led him to audio specialists in an online forum called Audio Karma, where likeminded enthusiasts mentored him. Those enthusiasts included a Boston audio equipment dealer, Brian Salazar, whom Irwin says was instrumental in his appreciation of HiFi equipment.
The store features a workspace for a staff of seven, who restore and repair electronics and cabinetry and photograph and ship equipment advertised on the store’s website, auralfetish.com. Vinyl itself has been around for more than 100 years and has been used to make records since the 1940s. By the ‘70s, vinyl was the standard format for music recordings. But it started to decline in the ‘80s as digital formats took over, and seemed doomed for obsolescence by 2006, when Tower Records went out of business.
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