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In Reply to: RE: Magnolia in Palo Alto posted by LWR on December 02, 2014 at 16:01:18
...in the late 1970s and early 1980s was home to The Audible Difference, one of the Bay Area's best audio stores.
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and where I bought the Apogee Scintilla's, my VTL, various Meridian gear, and my Well Tempered TT. Wayne was at my place time after time setting up and fine tuning. Whenever he left he had a sheet of paper listing albums I had played while we fiddled. Fine compliment when he told me I had the best taste in music that he ever came across.
It was a great store, I have no idea if it is even there now.
what became the "New Audible Difference" is now known as "Future Sound" in Burlingame,CA. Wayne has been running a wine shop in San Francisco DigWineSF or digwinesf.com.
a Cab fanatic if I recall correctly...
...last time I was there was in about 1998 after Russ sold it and the store moved to El Camino Real.
One of the rooms had been converted to home theater so it wasn't the same.
Garcia was a cohort of Valin's when they wrote for TAS. When the they both left and went to Fi magazine, HP felt betrayed and made Garcia "persona non grata" at the magazine, I was told.
Later when Martin bought TAS and brought him back, Harry was not very happy about it.
dial in a TT and cart like no one else. But they were on El Camino at least as far back as when Apogee came forth and the Well Tempered came out. I do not know where they may have been before then....late 1980's ...
Was that in, or next to a ranch style shopping center? I visited that store once while on a service call in the early 90's. In a smallish listening room on the left they displayed large Eggelstonworks driven by a small VTL 80. That room really clicked for me and left me rethinking my system.
On the way out someone was setting up a system with chrome faceplates. He was complaining loudly about the difficulty in removing the fingerprints from the chrome. I went out to the van and gave him a couple packs of lint free wipes. He was amazed and pleasantly thankful. Nice guy, nice store.
The Bay Area had a rich community of brick and mortar audio stores.
...the original store was off of University when I first went there in about 1980.
he was partners in a Hi Fi shop that was on University Circa 1980 or so. He left that and went to work for KEF. The store was on the east end of the University ave biz district....
...didn't know him but that was where Audible Difference was - east end of University north on a side street.
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