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RE: Does anyone remember these great old Chicago-based stereo stores from the 70s?

Hi

I bought a graphic equalizer from MusiCraft in Buffalo Grove back then, long enough ago that i can't remember the brand name.
I might have bought a Perpetuum Ebner turntable there or maybe hifi hutch.
It turned out later i would work with Billy R, the guy who owned the "stereo studios" at a small speaker company in Northbrook in the 90's.
He was the salesman at our little venture.

If your still in town, look into Saturday audio exchange, back when i was into hifi gear, you could occasionally get a great deal on something exotic a couple years old.
Their business is buying trade-ins, checking them out and if there ok, selling them.

In 1968 i got a part time job at a small TV and hifi store after school.
Our main competitor was Columbia TV, that had a store with real hifi equipment in it.
One of the salesman happened to live behind the TV store so he would walk past occasionally. When i was installing an 8 Track player in a car, he probably recognized me as the kid drooling over the Macintosh glass.
Anyway, at one point he invited me to hear his stereo.
He had a pair of Altec A-7's and a big Mac tube amp in a tiny living room and man, compared to the Panasonic Speakers we had, sounded and actually were gigantic and captivating..

Anyway, it was a long time before i could buy any of that stuff which forced me to build things so maybe that wasn't bad.
Still deep down inside, even though i don't listen to records that often, part of me still wants that gold colored Empire turntable in the Columbia window, back then. That silly or what sheesh.
Tom Danley


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