Damn if I can remember the name of the retailer (was 20 years ago) - based in south Manchester and worked from home - he went on to work for Audio Note I believe....
Bought a Gyro deck from this chap and 18 months later knocked the PSU and broke the acrylic casing and the speed change button.
Rang him up and told him what I had done - asked me to bring it round.
Went round and he looked it at it and said he can sort it out so made me a drink and sat me down in his demo room - powered up his demo rig (cannot remember totally what it was but remember the big valve amp on the floor - Audio Note Ongaku or something like that and I listened to some tunes)
After 15 mins or so came back with the PSU fixed and had a chat about the kit then I left - no money was swapped for his time etc.
Those were the days
R's
Andy
Main system:
Analogue.
Michell Orbe with arm decoupling kit & Pete's Pylons. SME V arm, Denon DL103M (FGS), Firebottle OPT MKII phono amp
Technic SP-10 in Obsidian plinth, AT1010 PMAC v8b arm, Goldring Elite MC Cart and BB3 Phono Amp
Leak Lenco GL75 with Ortofon OM10 cartridge
Technics RS-BX404 Cassette Deck
Network Player.
Raspberry PI plus R2-R DAC (also used as a CD player) plus Pi NAS Server
Digital.
Philips DCC 730 player
Marantz CD50SE
Amp.
Audiolab 8000A
Speakers.
Reiver Jenna floor standers
HeadPhones.
Sennheiser HD545 Ref, HD600, HD477