Special Vinyl Records

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The vinyl resurgence has led to amazing improvements in the quality of new vinyl records. Remastering from the original sources has led to new cuts of so many of the classics. I am such a vinyl head that I'm interested in these for myself and as a result we have started selling some.

Companies such as Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner and Mobile Fidelity Sound labs have re-issues and hidden pleasures a plenty! All are on 180g virgin vinyl and some are also half speed mastered. That puts the price up though, as does the highest level Mofi Ultradisc which is a limited edition of single stage pressing. The Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't stand the Weather with two discs at 45rpm sounds amazing. At £179 it should do, although some are already changing hands for more than that. Limited edition MFSL discs go up in price when the run ends, earlier releases can be twice what you paid for them after a few years.

Just this week we have arrivals from Lou Reed Transformer £29, Solomon Burke-King Solomon £29, Chet Baker and Art Pepper £29, Nina Simone Little Girl Blue £ 19, MFSL Supertramp Breakfast in America £ 59, MFSL Dire Straits Communique at £ 79 and MFSL Derek and the Dominoes Layla at £ 89

Call in for a look and treat yourself to a treasure!

Also recorded a video about making vinyl records, available very soon, will add the link

The Online World

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March 2021

We have now been closed for almost 3 months and I'm becoming institutionalised into online business and working!

While I know that this Blog is online I view it as talking to customers who mostly know me so it's also personal. I was shocked to find how I've been ignoring Blogs the past few months while busy on Youtube and eBay and spending hours ever y day at a keyboard answering emails!

YouTube videos are fun to do. I don't use a script and you can tell, for better or worse. I have a product, topic or person and off I go. If you haven't seen any do have a look and also subscribe, I hope to showcase all new products there as well as here in blogs. The advantage is that by subscribing you get an email every time I go off on another interview/rant about once every 2/3 weeks, and it's free.

The music ones are hugely rewarding. So far I have talked to Ronnie Greer and Ken Haddock and the craic has been great. Couple of great songs from Jimmy Neeson there too and reviews of Kef LS50, Linn Majik DSM4 and Rega Kyte speakers. Also a geeky one about equipment racks! Check these out and please subscribe, it costs nothing, 

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We've also been doing eBay for a few years now and it keeps growing. We don't sell much new gear there, it is mostly trade-ins for which we have the original packing. We have never tried to be a second hand hifi store buying and selling used gear. We use trade-ins to make your new purchase easier and so if at a particular time we don't have a lot of used gear I'm happy. It's the profit on our last sales!

Check out our eBay store:

Lyric Hifi eBay store

Now we are all more than ready to return to talking to people face to face. Phone calls and emails just aren't the same. This time has been interesting though in clarifying what Lyric Hifi is here for. We are specialists. That means that we select and demonstrate the best gear we can find. The hifi shortages have meant waiting lists on Rega, Linn, Naim and Kef products. Sorry, if you have to wait for the best then wait. If you want second best then go elsewhere. And that's the difference, shops where you can buy any old hifi rubbish (some of it expensive!) are not specialists just because they sell hifi. They are just supermarkets driven by half truths and the biggest commissions. We apply the highest standards to selecting the best gear and limiting ourselves to that premise. Many stores sell, or at least list, lots of really expensive gear that they have never even seen or heard, that's not being specialist, that's being order takers and online sales lend themselves to that lack of knowledge, experience and even morals.

Anyway, rant over, I really hope that we will be back open in April to let you hear the finest recent new products, LS50 Metas are fantastic, the new Rega Kytes are also great and there is a very big announcement to come from Linn next week.

Keep safe, see you soon, Michael

Stiff Little Fingers

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What age are you? Does SLF mean anything to you?

If you remember the Pound, Rotterdam and the Harp bar then check out these videos and dance down memory lane

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Michael

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What a voice! Ken Haddock

Lockdown Blues

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So it's 3rd January, Christmas and New Year have come and gone, lovely time thanks for asking, and now we get stuck in, ready to go back to work, let's go for it

But it's not quite the same this year.

The sales and installs we've planned are all on hold pending our folks on the hill deciding how long this lockdown goes on.

Karen starts tomorrow with a Vat return while I have orders to ship out, a proposal to finish and then chase up progress on ongoing projects.

During November and December business has been good to us, thank you again, and we have been too busy to sell on trade-ins.

So when Ross and Sam return even more refreshed on the 11th they have trade-ins a plenty to check out, listen to, clean and value.

That's many hours work when you have various Rega turntables, 2 Linn Sondeks, a VPI, a Luxman and a couple of Pink Triangles to work through! And that's only the turntables, there are also amplifiers, speakers and even tuners!

If you want to treat yourself to a bargain upgrade check out the Catalogue tab above followed by Used, Pre loved, Preowned, but wait until later in January, from about 15th on.

After that the guys have more to do in the shop before we re-open. I have purchased a very special music collection running to thousands of cds and vinyl records. These have been collated over many years and are mostly classical with some jazz and blues. While used Classical music usually doesn't sell, this collection has all been chosen as the best performances and recordings from Gramophone magazine over the past 30+ years and is in pristine condition. It is full of gems that can be treasured additions to any collection. We not only have to sort them we also need to work out some shelving/display for them

Someday when we are back open call in for a browse and pick up a bargain be it music or gear.

Happy New Year everyone, here 's hoping for great things in 2021