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In Reply to: RE: Shelley's. Yay? ....or Nay? posted by Simon Templar on August 10, 2015 at 21:46:28
The place seems to have evolved to home theater..... Didn't realize the place was still in business.....
(Although diminished over time, Southern California still has one of the largest audiophile communities in the country. So unlike some other parts of the country, high-end dealerships in S. California have remained in business over extended periods of time. In fact, it looks like Shelley's is about to relocate to a larger brick-and-mortar site.)
At one time, Shelley's was "Sound Center", which next to Ambrosia/David Weinhart, my all-time favorite high-end audio dealer. Don't know much since it became Shelley's. Probably doesn't have much semblance to the Sound Center back in the 1970s/1980s. (Sound Center became Shelley's around the time the CD was about to overtake the LP in the mainstream market.)
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NO! sound center was on ventura and winnetka and run by paul carvel who was notorious for not wearing shoes. shelleys had a store in the same parking lot as Federated where they profited nicely from disgruntled Federated customers.
then a store on Topanga near the Alpha Beta grocery store for quite a while.
sound center did not become shelleys. afaik ambrosia has always been in bel air and then changed to David Weinhart Design (same proprietor as ambrosia. he downsized first and now has re-expanded.
...regards...tr
When Sound Center closed, I was informed by a few friends that shopped there that the product lines sold by the store were taken over by Shelley's..... I visited the Shelley's store once, saw it was not close to what the Sound Center (or Federated) was.... I lost interest in the store after that.I don't know what happened to Paul.... Or John (quiet laid-back guy), for that matter. The store was on Winnetka, across the street from Taft High School. Shelley's was 5 to 10 miles West on Ventura, if I recall.
In regard to Federated, which I also spent a lot of time at, I don't recall any retail store remotely like that place. It was like a Fry's Electronics for audio. It was a huge retail chain store that sold only audio gear. The store was on De Soto and Vanowen, if I recall.
Edits: 08/16/15
you're right about vanowen and de soto. do you remember the Fred Rated ads? shadoe stevens, a former disc-jock played the part.
once i went federated to buy a grado fte+1 for about 15-20 bucks and the sales guy asked me how many i wanted. cute.
...regards...tr
I was in that store so often, I remember the name of one of the salesmen.... David Draves.....
There was even an "exotica" room in that store..... With Ohm Walsh "F" speakers on display, as well as Dahlquist DQ-10s and larger JBL speakers.......
The demo rooms used an electronic controller to run any receiver with any set of speakers. (Separates were not in vogue at the time. Although present in the exotica room.)
I once did a wacky thing with a turntable there..... There was a quirk in the design in which fiddling with the controls caused the platter to spin really fast..... Possibly 300 RPM or so..... (It was a direct drive turntable.) In retrospect, I was fortunate not to get caught and thrown out of the place.
"Shelley's was 5 to 10 miles West on Ventura, if I recall."
I just look at a map.... Shelley's was only two miles West of Sound Center.... It seemed a lot farther............
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