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    Audio Specialties Ltd

    4.6 (67 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

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    Liddy L.

    I had my parents original turntable and receiver cleaned up and refurbished here, and the results have been great. Turnaround is a few weeks but it's worth it for the '70s audio expertise.

    Douglas C.

    I first discovered this place while buying brand new vinyl records at the Warehouse Music Store that used to be across the street. Much has changed during the ensuing years, but the only thing that changes at Audio Specialties is the stock. They have a nice little niche market selling vintage consumer electronics; mostly Integrated amps and receivers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Not expensive stuff but, then again not bad stuff either. It's amazing how much quality a few hundred bucks bought you thirty and forty years ago. Sure, it's only two channels and it won't dock your iPod or support HDMI, but plug a turntable into this stuff and it will make you smile. Back when vinyl was king, all receivers and and integrated amps had phono pre-amps built into them. Today almost none of the digital surround sound receivers have phono inputs. If you want to listen to vinyl, you have to buy a separate phono pre-amp, and run it through the auxiliary input. But here's the rub: Decent phono stages start at $500 and you might need to spend $1000 before you got one as good as the stages they put into the pedestrian Pioneer, Sony and Marantz receivers from the 1970s. You sure won't spend anywhere near that for a clean vintage receiver at Audio Specialties. They can fix you up with a matching vintage turntable and speakers too. They also provide on-site service and repair.

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    Great place to buy sound equipment , courteous and great help there. Great selection. We have bought from here and will continue.

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    Doug is great! He knows his stuff, has great turn around time. Great price Old school HI-Fi shop. Big thumbs up!

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    9 years ago

    These guys tuned up my 30 year old Rotel turntable like new. Belts, lubed, balanced. Good for another 30 years. Highly recommended.

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    Best vintage hi-fi shop I've been too. Tremendously broad selection. Very fair prices. Excellent quality & warranty. A must visit.

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    Great, simple service. No fuss, no upsell. I think this is my new shop. Thanks!

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    I've been searching online and the boring box stores for some good inexpensive quality speakers for…read moremy personal laptop setup. Fortunately, I decided to venture down a search into the more local small businesses and came upon this cool old school & quirky shop. I think the gentleman's name was Jim. Older dude that could pass as your nerdy techy friend who's probably collected every tech gadget since the original Tron came out. Told him what I was looking for but I gradually got discouraged as all he was showing me were the bigger style bigger sound units that are common for home systems. But, alas! With a little patience we revealed a new treasure: smaller desk top speakers! Minor speaker mesh stains on the front but super decent with a little TLC. He was super friendly and chill, even making an effort to find parts that could potentially be missing from this set (like compatible power cord). It also came with an amp box that I've got sitting below my desk table, which was a nice surprise (I keep it plugged in for the deeper sounds or just unplugged for more "regular(?)" crispy audio). All that for a really awesome deal; I think it was something like $15-30 or something crazy like that. Good shit, dude! Thank you. If you're looking for small speakers, I probably snagged the last set but I definitely recommend this place for any help with acheiving 2 things at once: reusing/upcycling any sort of old working electronics and supporting a damn good local friendly small business.

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    Audio Specialties Ltd - electronics - Updated May 2026

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