A&A Audio & Video Centre in the Pacific Place mall, is a very pleasant and spacious electronics…read morestore, selling a range of cameras, lenses, speakers, headphones, and other audio and video products. The feature brands like Leica, Panasonic, Canon, and Nikon.
I do like that this store is well laid out, and easy to navigate around. Whilst there are many products in stock, the displays are spacious and clean, which means you don't get assaulted by gadgetry and information. However, it does mean that if you do want to look at a product, you will have to ask the staff to show you. This means you have to engage with the staff, which, when it comes to browsing electronics, I really dislike.
The staff are pleasant enough, but not hugely knowledgeable about their product lines. If you've done your research, you could probably decipher their mumblings. What I don't like about the staff here, is their attention span. I think they must be on a very aggressive commission only salary, because as soon as a mainland Chinese buyer enters the store, you will be ignored in favour of the quick and expensive sale from across the border. A&A Audio & Video Centre in fact lost a sale of a camera to me, because the staff did exactly that. I was so aggrieved I walked out of the store, however, when I returned to ask whether or not the sale had been made to the other customer, It had not which made me laugh - a lot! I ended up buying my camera from Fortress.
Don't let me put you off shopping here, I do like the fact that you can get very hands on with the equipment, much more so then with some other stores, where they start to fidget impatiently if you haven't decided on a purchase within two seconds of touching the product.
Word of warning, shop around for a good price. I suspect that their rent is very high here, so they will charge as much as possible for their products. I recently found an identical product in Lane Crawford (HKD1200), which was surprisingly HK$400 cheaper then A&A Audio & Video Centre (HKD1600).
