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re: Need help remembering a Stereo store back in the 80’s
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:11 pm to Jumpinjack
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:11 pm to Jumpinjack
Camelot Records
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:16 pm to White Bear
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The Sound Shop was in Natchez.
I bought many a cassette tape there.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:26 pm to Flair Chops
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Speaker City
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:32 pm to MizunoDude
Alterman Audio
Posted on 12/5/23 at 7:47 pm to Flair Chops
“Everything from speakers to dvd players”
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:03 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
quote:that takes me back...I remember that place. Used to have one on I-10 service road by Clearview right?
Sound Trek
LINK
Sound Trek
Service Merchandise (awesome catalog to browse as a kid)
Silo
CompUSA
Campo
The speaker/stereo shows at the Superdome
Richie Savoie's NOAV (still there)
I worked at that Circuit City in Kenner back in 1999 as my first job. Definitely didn't use my store discount to buy Aiwa shelf systems for friends going off to college.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:08 pm to busbeepbeep
Back in the 80s, if you had a Punch 150 you were hot shite
Considered rich if you had a 300
Considered rich if you had a 300
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:09 pm to MizunoDude
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New Orleans East
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Sound” in the name
Sound of gunfire?
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:12 pm to Cosmo
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Audio Video Innovators
Off Ambassador
Neeeexxxxttt to the walmart
Tween Sam's and Walmart now.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:15 pm to MizunoDude
Down with Sound like Charlie Brown Inc.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:37 pm to lsufan112001
quote:in the 90s, it was the Orion Red amps.
Back in the 80s, if you had a Punch 150 you were hot shite
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:02 pm to MizunoDude
quote:You sure about that? Because in those days I was a student buying audio gear on scarce wages, and the big two local stereo stores were Sound Trek on the I-10 service road near Clearview (now a Men's Warehouse or something) and Stereo Village on Veterans. Then there was Alterman Audio on IIRC Freret and later Magazine uptown for higher-end stuff, but occasionally with some good sales.
in New Orleans East by the Lake forest Plaza mall
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:04 pm to MizunoDude
From around 1980 or so to around 2005, Metairie/NOLA had (from my distant memory)…
Stereo Village was in a strip mall off Veterans one building past Transcontinental—mid to higher end gear—Luxman, Nakamichi, Carver, Micro Seiki turntables, Rotel, Bang & Olufsen, Revox/Studer, Tascam…
Sound Trek was in the building currently occupied by K&G men’s warehouse on I-10 service road in Metry and was owned by Tony Campo—they mainly carried entry level hi-fI, but decent gear—Aiwa, Sony, JVC, Technics, Hitachi, Carver, Onkyo, Phillips…
Silo was in Elmwood under the Huey P. train bridge (behind Lou Ripper’s Compass Furniture), and carried audio her from Sony, JVC, Cerwin-Vega, Bose (and others).
Alterman Audio (Henry Alterman) was on 17th St. in the strip mall just to the right of the main post office behind Lakeside Mall. He carried what I call “mid-fi” audio gear—Sony ES, Pioneer Elite, Klipsch upper lines (Klipschorns, Heresy, La Scala, Cornwall), TEAC, Sony XBR television, Harman Kardan, definitive Technology, and more.
Wilson Audio (Doug Wilson) had a place uptown on Maple St. near Carrollton Ave., and another in Fat City in Metry—carried high end audio gear from the likes of Magnepan, Focal Utopia, Audio Research Corp., Rogue Audio, Plinius, Esoteric (TEAC’s reference line), Tandberg, Pass Labs, Acoustic Zen Cables, Nørdost Cables, Wadia Digital, Nottingham Turntables, and a few more I have forgotten.
Audio Resource was on Edenborn in Fat City in Metry, (initially owned by Don & Margann Turnipseed). They carried Adcom, Mirage, Snell Acoustics, and a few more I can’t remember.
Around 1998 or so, Jay Valentino bought the business and really ramped it up—renovated the place making 5 listening rooms, and began representing Mark Levinson, VTL, Richard Gray’s Power Company, Bowers & Wilkins, Rotel, Martin-Logan, Manley Labs, McIntosh Labs, Sumiko, Classé Audio, Ayre, Boulder Audio…
After Katrina destroyed the store in Metairie, Jay moved to Baton Rouge and opened Valentino Home Entertainment off Jefferson (now defunct).
I still speak with Valentino and Henry Alterman regularly.
Stereo Village was in a strip mall off Veterans one building past Transcontinental—mid to higher end gear—Luxman, Nakamichi, Carver, Micro Seiki turntables, Rotel, Bang & Olufsen, Revox/Studer, Tascam…
Sound Trek was in the building currently occupied by K&G men’s warehouse on I-10 service road in Metry and was owned by Tony Campo—they mainly carried entry level hi-fI, but decent gear—Aiwa, Sony, JVC, Technics, Hitachi, Carver, Onkyo, Phillips…
Silo was in Elmwood under the Huey P. train bridge (behind Lou Ripper’s Compass Furniture), and carried audio her from Sony, JVC, Cerwin-Vega, Bose (and others).
Alterman Audio (Henry Alterman) was on 17th St. in the strip mall just to the right of the main post office behind Lakeside Mall. He carried what I call “mid-fi” audio gear—Sony ES, Pioneer Elite, Klipsch upper lines (Klipschorns, Heresy, La Scala, Cornwall), TEAC, Sony XBR television, Harman Kardan, definitive Technology, and more.
Wilson Audio (Doug Wilson) had a place uptown on Maple St. near Carrollton Ave., and another in Fat City in Metry—carried high end audio gear from the likes of Magnepan, Focal Utopia, Audio Research Corp., Rogue Audio, Plinius, Esoteric (TEAC’s reference line), Tandberg, Pass Labs, Acoustic Zen Cables, Nørdost Cables, Wadia Digital, Nottingham Turntables, and a few more I have forgotten.
Audio Resource was on Edenborn in Fat City in Metry, (initially owned by Don & Margann Turnipseed). They carried Adcom, Mirage, Snell Acoustics, and a few more I can’t remember.
Around 1998 or so, Jay Valentino bought the business and really ramped it up—renovated the place making 5 listening rooms, and began representing Mark Levinson, VTL, Richard Gray’s Power Company, Bowers & Wilkins, Rotel, Martin-Logan, Manley Labs, McIntosh Labs, Sumiko, Classé Audio, Ayre, Boulder Audio…
After Katrina destroyed the store in Metairie, Jay moved to Baton Rouge and opened Valentino Home Entertainment off Jefferson (now defunct).
I still speak with Valentino and Henry Alterman regularly.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:14 pm to jflsufan
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Alterman Audio
For thome thound advith….
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:21 pm to Marco Esquandolas
Your memory is spot on. I worked at Stereo Village while in school and you captured a lot of our brands.
One cool thing about my time there was working with John Fischbach, who was one of our managers and was an awesome recording engineer. He worked on Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life. Really knowledgeable person when it came to audio gear.
One cool thing about my time there was working with John Fischbach, who was one of our managers and was an awesome recording engineer. He worked on Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life. Really knowledgeable person when it came to audio gear.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 11:08 pm to jflsufan
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Alterman Audio
Bought a pair of Klipsch Heresy from him in 1976.
Posted on 12/5/23 at 11:39 pm to MizunoDude
Earjaculation?
Posted on 12/6/23 at 12:04 am to Christopher Columbo
Posted on 12/6/23 at 12:07 am to Hangover Haven
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For thome thound advith….
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