+ Reply to Thread
Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 25

Thread: Visiting London next week

  1. #1
    Join Date: May 2010

    Location: Vancouver, Canada

    Posts: 2,166
    I'm Alex.

    Default Visiting London next week

    I'll be visiting London next week and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding a good hi fi/record store there?
    Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?

    Alex.

  2. #2
    Join Date: Jan 2008

    Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK

    Posts: 110,012
    I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.

    Default

    With the way things are going, Alex, it's likelier you'll need suggestions for where to buy a protective vest or bomb shelter, than anything else... But failing that, I'd thoroughly recommend Sister Ray Records, in Soho, which is top notch:

    https://www.facebook.com/sisterrayrecords/

    I'm sure that our resident Londoners will have many more good suggestions. Anyway, have a nice trip, and above all, stay safe!

    Marco.
    Main System

    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


  3. #3
    Join Date: Nov 2013

    Location: HAMPSTEAD

    Posts: 1,156
    I'm brian.

    Default

    Marco s suggestion is excellent . Names escape me but there are 1 or 2 others in the same rd as S.R in Berwick st
    I think ? There s another one in essex rd, just up a bit from Angel tube stn. Trouble is this time of night bit hard to remember
    there names ( plus me age). Harold Moores ( well done Bri I've remembered one !) is interesting with some 78 s
    Again top of Berwick st that one but not sure if there still in business. Got a few at mine in Hampstead all ways open to a cash offer.
    Good night. best wishes

  4. #4
    Join Date: Jun 2014

    Location: London SW

    Posts: 672
    I'm Anthony.

    Default

    Opposite Sister Ray you have Reckless Records , and just round the corner is soho jazz - sounds of the Universe.
    Our education is wrong, it takes no note of the subtleties of human nature, it places more importance on the memory of an individual than how memorable an individual is. Bernard Sumner 1995

  5. #5
    Join Date: Nov 2013

    Location: HAMPSTEAD

    Posts: 1,156
    I'm brian.

    Default

    The shop in Essex rd is Flashback records, pretty good I would say. There was another one further up Essex rd but sadly is now closed.
    The owner was brilliant, he once put up a sign saying something like THE LAST PERSON TO STEAL A RECORD FROM THIS SHOP IS NO
    LONGER WITH US. R.I.P. ROBIN. Wonderful shop as well you could spend hours scrolling through the records. Happy days. Have a good time in London

  6. #6
    Join Date: May 2010

    Location: Vancouver, Canada

    Posts: 2,166
    I'm Alex.

    Default

    Thank you all for the recommendations. Yes, Marco, I'll be honest -- I'm shitting bricks thinking about the terrorist threat. But at the same time, we cannot put life on hold. At least I wasn't able to find the Pause button (yet).

    I'm hoping to bump into some rare LP pressings while visiting those stores. Question: will the UK records play in Canada? I'm a bit confused there...
    Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?

    Alex.

  7. #7
    Join Date: May 2015

    Location: St Leonard's on Sea

    Posts: 1,136
    I'm Loz.

    Default

    Hey Alex

    Good suggestions so far. Soho has a few including the aforementioned Reckless and Sister
    Ray. There is also Sounds of the Univerise and Phonica in Soho. Adjacent to Soho there is a HMV on Oxford Street if that takes your fancy!

    In east London around Shoreditch there is another good branch of Sister Ray. There is a large Rough Trade in Brick Lane, great for new vinyl. There is also one of three branches of Flashback Records at the top of Brick Lane, the others being in Essex Road, Islington and Crouch End. Flashback stores are good. A personal favourite for new and used.

    Up the road a short distance from Flashback in Crouch End is Audio Gold. They have a pretty big selection of used vinyl and an even larger selection of vintage Hi-Fi, albeit at eye watering prices. Worth a visit just to take a look at the wall to wall Hi-Fi!

    There are numerous other small stores around, depends how much time you have. Give me a shout when you are over, I'd be happy to point you in the right direction. Anyway don't be put off by what's been happening here recently, London is still one of the best cities in the world to visit. Have fun.


    http://flashback.co.uk/

    https://www.roughtrade.com/

    https://audiogold.co.uk/

    http://www.phonicarecords.com/

    https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/

    https://reckless.co.uk/
    Last edited by HackneyRF; 08-06-2017 at 18:40.

  8. #8
    Join Date: Feb 2013

    Location: W Lothian

    Posts: 99,005
    I'm Grant.

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by magiccarpetride View Post
    Thank you all for the recommendations. Yes, Marco, I'll be honest -- I'm shitting bricks thinking about the terrorist threat. But at the same time, we cannot put life on hold. At least I wasn't able to find the Pause button (yet).

    I'm hoping to bump into some rare LP pressings while visiting those stores. Question: will the UK records play in Canada? I'm a bit confused there...
    safer up here in Scotland Mate... last terrorists got beaten up
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  9. #9
    Join Date: Aug 2009

    Location: Staffordshire, England

    Posts: 37,779
    I'm Martin.

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by magiccarpetride View Post
    Thank you all for the recommendations. Yes, Marco, I'll be honest -- I'm shitting bricks thinking about the terrorist threat. But at the same time, we cannot put life on hold. At least I wasn't able to find the Pause button (yet).

    I'm hoping to bump into some rare LP pressings while visiting those stores. Question: will the UK records play in Canada? I'm a bit confused there...
    You have to play them backwards but they do work.

    The 'terrorists' are nothing to worry about. The odds of being involved in something like that are infinitesimal.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

  10. #10
    Join Date: May 2012

    Location: Toulouse, France

    Posts: 6,562
    I'm Kevin.

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    You have to play them backwards but they do work.
    Kevin

    Too busy enjoying the music....

    European loan coordinator for Graham Slee HiFi system components..

+ Reply to Thread
Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •