Viewing by month: November 2006
An Audiophile's Dream
20 Years ago when Chad Kassem started Acoustic Sounds, the collectible LP market consisted mostly of pre-owned product. As modern-day audiophilia progressed, reissue labels went a long way towards diminishing the preowned market – at least as far as mail order was concerned. Acoustic Sounds grew to become the world’s largest dealer of LPs, and the bulk of our stock consisted of sealed reissues. Still, there are records that have never been reissued and there are many records where the original sounds better than the reissue. In fact, original LPs, when in Mint or Near Mint condition, remain the most collectible musical format.
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Movin’ to the Music
In December of 2004, Acoustic Sounds moved to its fifth and likely final location, an 18,000-square-foot warehouse. It’s been 20 years in the making, but we’ve built the audiophile Fort Knox. Here’s a brief look at our history, our present and our future.
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We have built it. Will you come?
We can tell you what we’d do – or rather what we did. As part of the move to our new 18,000-square-feet Audiophile Fort Knox, we decided to create two state-of-the-art Acoustic Sounds showrooms – a place where we can both demo audio equipment and recordings for customers, and evaluate them for ourselves. No expense was spared in the construction of these rooms or in the selection of gear that would outfit them.
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