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One Stop Shopping, posted on April 9, 2015 at 03:43:59
Shep Audiophile Posts: 249 Location: Southeast U.S. Joined: March 13, 2001	I'm no expert but Little Five Points offers both Criminal Records & Wax n' Facts record stores along with a nice, funky vibe & eclectic shopping. While you're there you can go to the Vortex for a great burger as well. Happy Hunting!

Fantasyland, Wax and Facts, Wuxtry (nt), posted on April 9, 2015 at 04:30:08
robotk Audiophile Posts: 422 Joined: May 23, 2003	...

RE: Atlanta GA, posted on April 9, 2015 at 04:30:39
lokie Audiophile Posts: 1989 Location: Georgia, USA Joined: January 28, 2003	Amazon... Sorry, I couldn't resist. If your in the Athens area, Wuxtry in downtown Athens is a goowon.

Wuxtry, posted on April 9, 2015 at 04:50:29
robotk Audiophile Posts: 422 Joined: May 23, 2003	Of the two, Wuxtry Athens is by far my favorite. Wuxtry in Decatur has a large Jazz/Blues section if that's your thing and is also good. Just bought a decently rare, mint copy of Buckingham/Nicks for my wife from the Athens store, who's a huge Fleetwood Mac fan at Wuxtry Athens. She was stoked. Plus Athens kicks ass, so there is that too.

Wuxtry, posted on April 9, 2015 at 10:37:04
lokie Audiophile Posts: 1989 Location: Georgia, USA Joined: January 28, 2003	Between downtown Athens and Little Five Points/Atlanta, you would be spitting distance to a dozen or so really fine small venues. So don't forget to schedule in some live music. And of course a Terrapin (Athens) and a 420 (Atlanta).

RE: Wuxtry, posted on April 9, 2015 at 11:08:14
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Thanks! for sharing- All. any other shops, not mentioned?

how about a little east?, posted on April 9, 2015 at 12:09:10
tomservo Manufacturer Posts: 8204 Joined: July 4, 2002	I am moving to the Gainsville / Dahlonega Ga area soon, what is there around that area? I really like the area from what i have seen visiting.

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 9, 2015 at 12:59:42

BigguyinATL
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NE metro ATL,

Godzooks! Looked up the website and it's now renames Hi-Fi Buys. Rejuvenating the name of the original "Highish" End stores in the 80's 90's before Tweeter etc. bought them.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius

audio alternatives

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 9, 2015 at 13:44:54
Chazro Audiophile Posts: 178 Location: W. Palm Bch, FL Joined: March 14, 2008	Decatur CD is a great shop for used Cd's AND Vinyl!

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 9, 2015 at 13:52:12
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Yes, I did see this recently? Do you know the back story? Audio Alternative has been in ATL for 20 years or more...

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 9, 2015 at 13:52:36
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Thanks! for sharing- Charzo.

RE: how about a little east?, posted on April 9, 2015 at 16:55:55

lokie
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Location: Georgia, USA
Joined: January 28, 2003

Hey Tom, Welcome to the hood. I drove over from Athens and came to one of your demos afew years back. It was in the parking lot of a Humongous Church. I'm sure your used to it but speakers that loud in the middle of the day causes quite a raucous. Dogs were barking, car alarms were going off, kids were coming out of their classrooms at a near by school,a fire truck and a police cruiser showed up... it was total mayhem. And everyone in your firm looked on w great approval and I was grinning ear to ear in disbelief something that loud could sound so good.... pretty funny stuff.

Gainesville pretty much has two things- Lake Lanier (a fantastic lake btw) and Chickens. I haven't heard much in the live music department but I really dunno. 30 Minutes to Athens, Atlanta and North Georgia Mountains.

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 9, 2015 at 18:10:31
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	which side of the city is Decatur CD located ?

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 10, 2015 at 05:52:18

louie3

There were two Hi Fi Buys companies at one time. The one in Atlanta (and Nashville) were independent of the Hi Fi Buys gobbled up by Tweeter before it died.

The store in Nashville sold Wilson Audio and Macintosh, etc. I am not sure of the exact relationship between the two companies.

I notice Audio Alternative is still in the store name. FWIW, Audio Alternative has a huge collection of classic audio gear...drool city.

Worth a trip if you have time.

Slghtly east -nt, posted on April 10, 2015 at 06:12:33
E-Stat Audiophile Posts: 37641 Joined: May 12, 2000 Contributor Since: April 5, 2002	.

Go back a bit further, posted on April 10, 2015 at 06:25:48

E-Stat
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Rejuvenating the name of the original "Highish" End stores in the 80's 90's...

The original Atlanta based Hi-Fi Buys on Peachtree St in Buckhead dates back to the early 70s owned by Mel somebody. Just down the street from the Buckhead Cinema and the Sears (both long gone now). And near another audio shop, the "Old Counselor" Lee Kramer's High Fidelity SSS.

I've known Alan at AA for years and purchased lots of gear from him. Nice guy.

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 10, 2015 at 07:20:25
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Many Thanks! louie3- yes, we had a Tweeter? Hifi Buys in Birmingham AL as well. Went away about 10 years ago- nice store, had great gear at great prices.

RE: Go back a bit further, posted on April 10, 2015 at 07:21:55
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	ATL has certainly had many, many, shops come & go? It is a sad state of affairs.

The Most Formative one for me, posted on April 10, 2015 at 07:32:38
E-Stat Audiophile Posts: 37641 Joined: May 12, 2000 Contributor Since: April 5, 2002	was Fat Julian's Audio. I was exposed to a range of incredible gear and met many people who became very influential to me.

RE: The Most Formative one for me, posted on April 10, 2015 at 11:04:54
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Thanks! for sharing -E-Stat. are there any other Audio shops, at this time, besides Audio Alternative & The Audio Company?

RE: The Most Formative one for me, posted on April 10, 2015 at 11:13:28
E-Stat Audiophile Posts: 37641 Joined: May 12, 2000 Contributor Since: April 5, 2002	Since I moved away from the area, I'm no longer in the loop.

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 10, 2015 at 11:30:37
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Anyone else know of any other Audio shops in the ATL?

RE: how about a little east?, posted on April 10, 2015 at 17:11:46

tomservo
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Hi
Hey I was down at the shop for that demo I think. See if it was the one in the link. This was the first public demo of a J-3, with an 812 subwoofer.
I saw a guy walking around with some kind of tiny video camera (I thought might be an I phone).
Later he posted the link for the video and I thought captured the sound pretty well. He didn't post the part with the police, don't know if he caught that, that was embarrassing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOG_sPejGA

Part of the reason it was turned up "kind of loud" was that out in the field were a number of stadium related people. One way these full range point sources are different compared to line arrays, that they sound "the same" everywhere in front even far away. To see if that was really true, two car loads of them went off to find a road far enough away to hear that. Somebody else took a video there, you can't see the speaker but it's to the side of the cream colored building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiS0-lqSUX4

It was worth the citation from the po, the demo lead to providing speakers for Tiger Stadium / LSU and Spartan stadium in Michigan and those lead to other large stadiums.
Here are a couple video's I took at those during the set up. The speakers are in the scoreboard in both systems, LSU being the more powerful, hits 105dBA slow at the farthest seat at onset of limiting and is -3dB at 27Hz.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oyosfc3adc6j1du/20130723135350.mts?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnsw5mb4v5vdlwq/20120726122124.mts?dl=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWtADec3abc
Best,
Tom

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 10, 2015 at 17:13:45
tomservo Manufacturer Posts: 8204 Joined: July 4, 2002	Thanks for the tip! It will be a few weeks before I am out exploring and done moving but on the other hand, I don't have any idea where anything is, so it will be an adventure. Well, I haven't moved in nearly 40 years so it's already an adventure haha.

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 11, 2015 at 05:32:07
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Tom- you are listed as a manufacturer- what product(s) do you make?

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 11, 2015 at 06:25:54

tomservo
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Hi
Well we make full range "single acoustic source" horns and subwoofers for use in large spaces.
We have taken kind of a different approach, we don't advertise much so we are not well known outside of commercial sound and there our sales come mostly from word of mouth.

The object of the full range speakers is to radiate as if they only had a single crossover-less driver in a large constant directivity horn, even though the box may contain many drivers, in one case over 100. In most of these, over a broad band width, if you put a square wave in, you see a recognizable square wave with a microphone.

I like to think of our approach as large scale hifi, especially compared to the concert style line arrays usually used in stadiums etc.

In a reply above, i posted a few links to videos which captured the sound, if you have headphones, try one or two.

Here is the (needs to be updated) web site with the products and some jobs and face book page (more up to date) if interested.
Best,
Tom
http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/

https://www.facebook.com/DanleySoundLabs?ref=ts

Since your in the area, If you have been to Turner field, that was one of our first jobs and a ton of Churches in South have them as well.

RE: Audio Alternative in Lilburn, posted on April 11, 2015 at 12:21:21
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Very interesting.

RE: One Stop Shopping, posted on April 12, 2015 at 05:03:08
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Anyone else want to discuss the Audio/HiFi shops in ATL?

RE: One Stop Shopping, posted on April 12, 2015 at 15:20:27
Chazro Audiophile Posts: 178 Location: W. Palm Bch, FL Joined: March 14, 2008	Used to live in the Atlanta area 5 yrs ago. Used to visit Audio Alternatives often, good people. Never pulled the trigger on anything major, just cables, audiophile vinyl, and accessories. I just checked and this other shop I did business with is still around; Sound Image. Great gear and knowledgable salesguys. I bought an Arcam CD23T and a new dustcover for my LP12 from them.

RE: One Stop Shopping, posted on April 12, 2015 at 16:05:29
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	I will look them up- Charzo. Has anyone paid a visit to The Audio Company, NW Atlanta?

When he was in the Antiques store in Marietta., posted on April 14, 2015 at 09:22:17

ToddM
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Location: Atlanta, USA
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I found the studio in back by accident after looking thru the dollar bins at he front of the store. Lovely stuff - Ortofon accessories, Rogue, Pro-Ject turntables (I think), lots of great gear that a soon-to-be-second time father could only look at after he picked out a double-armful of records. Even in a small space, the setups looked and sounded great (if maybe not super-optimal). Owner was really nice, very knowledgeable and willing to chat. I definitely want to go and see the new place now.

RE: When he was in the Antiques store in Marietta., posted on April 14, 2015 at 09:28:07
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Many Thanks! ToodM- the new place has been opened for more than 1 year now.

The Vinyl District App, posted on April 16, 2015 at 09:11:39
Schlep Audiophile Posts: 289 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Joined: April 24, 2007	While it's not CDs per se, most vinyl stores trade in used cds too. Not sure if The Vinyl District app has been mentione elsewhere, but it's pretty neat. Where-ever you are, use the app and it shows you where the closest used vinyl shops are. http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/mobile/2011/12/introducing-the-tvd-gps-based-record-store-locator-app-for-your-iphone-or-android/ Craig

RE: The Vinyl District App, posted on April 16, 2015 at 11:07:34
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Very cool- Craig.

RE: Wuxtry, posted on April 18, 2015 at 04:26:13
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	Happy Record Store Day!

RE: One Stop Shopping, posted on April 19, 2015 at 08:33:47
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15519 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	How did everyone do on RSD?

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