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In Reply to: RE: Pacific Stereo? posted by AudioSoul on October 13, 2013 at 18:03:50
Long gone. Pacific Stereo – had 67 stores before it went out of business in 1987. The sign you saw is probably for this:
Pacific Stereo - Your Source for Car Audio, Car Video, Car ...
www.pacificstereo.com/
We are an authorized online car audio dealer . We specialize in: Alpine, Clarion, Eclipse, Focal, Jensen, JL Audio, JVC, Kicker, Pioneer, Rockford Fosgate and ...
Pacific Stereo Riverside, CA - Car Audio - Store Locator - Car Speakers
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They had a huge store on Market Street in San Francisco where I bought many pieces of equipment, including a pair of Bose 901's and a Luxman integrated amplifier for my 50x50x20' photo studio in 1971. It rocked! Tower Records in North Beach was just over the hill. Great times.
The good ol' So. Calif stereo days... Pacific Stereo, University Stereo, Federated, Roger Sound Labs, etc. All in the San Fernando Valley.
...in CA and even Denver in the 1970s.
I bought my first stereo (not counting my college KLH compact system) from them in Long Beach in 1973.
Infinity 2000 AXT speakers, a Kenwood quadraphonic receiver and a Dual turntable/changer all for around $700 IIRC.
a quadreo? :)
I never did buy into the Quadraphonic thing. The back channel content was too gimmicky for my tastes. Whoaaaaaoh - now Carlos Santana is playing behind you!
Just imagine quadraphonic using four Bose 901s. A guitar would stretch around all the walls, man!
...I used it as stereo and then later added rear speakers for synthesized quadraphonia.
Remember this was the mid-1970s.
I didn't discover high end until a couple of years later.
A boyfriend of a college roommate had 4 Bose 901s, one in each corner of his living room in about 1970, and boy did they play loud.
firing into each corner. :)
I remember Pacific Stereo in Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, and other parts of OC when I was growing up. The Starbucks of stereo stores? On every corner! ;-)
...I discovered Dahlquist DQ-10s at the Federated Store there in 1977.
Then I bought the electronic crossover and subs from Havens and Hardesty, the first high end store I discovered there.
Richard Hardesty was the one who first showed me a copy of TAS.
Yes I remember Havens and Hardesty. I went to a lot of manufacturers demos there. They were big on Audio Research, Vandersteen and Linn when Linn only made turntables, arms, and cartridges.....
The One in Downey has a well equipped SAE section used to power a good selection of Infinity speakers. That was when "emit" was it :^)
I bought a Micro-Acoustics 2002e cartridge from them in 1977.
Funny I can remember that but I don't know what I had for breakfast this morning.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
Bought a pair car speakers from them, Advent boxes and also a Concept receiver and a pair of Kenwood home speakers
The Warehouse Sound Company, San Luis Obispo, CA
Brillo Bob.
:-)
all the best,
mrh
I never bought anything from them but I loved the catalogs. I always wished that I had gotten down to San Luis Obispo to check them out. The catalogs were so in tune with the culture of the times.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
Sold me a great Dual 1249 and some not so great Sansui 3 ways at a healthy discount.
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
that seemed to be part of every sake priced 'system' at Pacific Stereo back in the day.
nr
"To Do Is To Be" Socrates
"To Be Is To Do" Plato
"Do Be Do Do Be Do" Sinatra
up a two channel system. No scratchiness in the controls whatsoever and seemed very well constructed.
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
...you have a great memory.
Short term?
Not so much. :-(
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