Audio Gold - Inside the Aladdin's cave of analogue hi-fi

[@cyelannford4735]

Not only is the audio equipment a piece of heaven, being around this brings back memories of when real music was made, and life was worth living. Almost like a _time machine_ ... one I'd wear out, going back over and over. 😍😍

[@alunmorgan7869]

Absolutely fantastic shop and all the guys there really know their stuff and are incredibly helpful Love the place

[@chuckst98]

Yes! I will take one of everything haha! Old school vintage sound is incredible!!!

[@ongkienemir]

Another kind of library - Wow amazing collection ...

[@aniljoshi8284]

I'm working with electronic equipment since years and all the devices in this video are so familiar..worked on almost all of them! Wonderful collection !

[@vintageaudio7788]

i am a Audio mania in South-korea.good Vintage~~ Amazing.~~

[@kareemrajab6009]

I think your voice is a high-level TV radio voice 👏🎖👏🎖👏 thank you

[@Emontop1]

Just one of the amazing audio shop in this planet. 👍👍👍👍👍😀

[@joshdw]

One of my favourite channels for sure! Thumbs up!

[@IanJTaylor]

Love Audio Gold. I got my speakers from them and then had to get them on the W7 bus up to the top of Muswell Hill - they are floorstanders too so I got some funny looks. Then had to ask my mum to come and stand with one while I carried the other home and then again for the second one.

[@jacksonsystemslimited]

Countless times have I done this before I could drive! Gold!

[@edwinparsons7929]

The bus stops very close to the shop, lol.

[@metropcs8046]

Seeing the inside of the Hi-Fi shop reminds me of my attic and my basement because I collect a lot of vintage and antique electronics some of my collection goes back to the 1930s and 1920s. It is nice to see other people who appreciate older vintage electronics like I do. Whether it is high end or lower line they still appreciate it like me. They have a nice collection of HiFi stuff in that shop I hope they keep saving more vintage and antique electronics

[@jenniferschmitzer299]

So like Bakelite radios?

[@jameswyllie9608]

Great shop somewhere I feel very comfortable

[@doctorblem]

I´m listening classical music since 50 years, in many many audio equipments, and I don´t feel too much improvement!!!

[@Justwantahover]

For strings get a full range driver with a cardboard dust cap, bend it inwards from 1/3rd way up the dustcap. With a blunt object. Make 2 very thin sticks out of a toothpick that is split up into thin strings of bamboo. Cut them short, 1/8" long. And glue the end of the stick to the center of the pushed in dustcap on the full range driver (pointing upward). Then cut out a tiny piece of foil from coffee can seal foil. The same shape as the Google pointer logo (tear drop shape) and 1/4" x 1/8". Poke a hole in it where the Google logo has it's "hole". Then glue the tiny foil to the end of the stick on the dustcap. Trick: You have to let the first glue dry first before you glue the foil on. Have fun, it's hard and very fiddly. Use PVA cos you have a second chance, and even more chances of getting it right. You can't do it with your hands. A bit of spit and a toothpick will do it. Even harder to do, now, but at least possible. The best strings you will ever hear. You can hear the friction of the bow on the strings. And voice "S's" are sweet and perfect. As long as you stick to that size foil. The treble comes from both sides of the foil and sounds 3D. See my channel if you are interested (not far down).

[@shivshankar-pn6mb]

this is pure gold I love your collection

[@reemo6990]

I kept waiting for him to say, "These go to 11..."

[@philrushton6868]

What cracking place, I'll have to visit soon!

[@jimmyharlent5000]

superb collection

[@retro80s80]

Awesome shop. Bet there are some treasures in there. Young kids have no idea what music could sound like on a decent quality system.

[@arttafil6792]

Retro 80's Damn, my basement!

[@WARDANT1]

Went up there a few years back as my wife wanted to get me a tape deck for my birthday. On the same visit she bought herself some really nice Sony headphones. Since bought some new phones for my dad, new Wharfedale speakers, & lastly had my NAD amp repaired. Lovely people. They sell records too. I need an excuse to visit again.

[@lenward474]

Short but great visit! Thanks for be this!!!

[@annielee4510]

武器

[@danfossard]

I used to live upstairs! Amazing shop :)

[@Badassvidsz]

Amazing stuff indeed : analog paradise

[@bikesbeersbeats]

I lived around the corner!

[@jayray-vi5oi]

You be a lucky dog

[@Yatri234]

Amazing collection 🤔🤔👌👌

[@Badassvidsz]

Amazing stuff i wish if i was living there and went for shopping in his amazing analog shop :-)

[@Damonm68]

Michal Urbaniak's Funk Factory track in the background, loved that album.

[@waynewayne3709]

Yep agree modern hifi just does not have that sound as these old hifi's over engineered to last.. I've worked on repairing many many high end equipment over the years just great stuff.

[@RssutharJaisalmer]

Oh! My God! Very awesome video! 😯👌👆🙏

[@hi-fihaven2257]

Is this heaven?! It looks like it!

[@AlexMitchell-sj4sb]

Love it! Just wish it wasn't 150 miles away!

[@lukewarm.]

I've been here today and wished I lived there! Had a listen to some old celestion speakers because I wanted to see what the level up from my ditton 15s was. Anyway, brilliant and fascinating shop!

[@georaduica9060]

it brokes my heart watching this........those units shoud be in a hifi lover's living room , playing music not standing in that warehouse expouse to humidity and cold temperatures for those years.......equipment is built to enjoy people , to bring joy and excitement!

[@XxIzhtarxX]

lol yea too bad we are too broke to even make him an offer.

[@georaduica9060]

man , u get it upside down , thats not what i said.......

[@DinkyDoughnut]

I cannot stress how my experience on modern equipment and vintage HiFi has me back on the drawing board.

[@dwoodog]

I could hang out in this shop for hours.

[@lizichell2]

Oh my gosh this place is glorious

[@TheAnunnaki-NYC]

Is he Ricky Gervais's brother?

[@johnkear2268]

Huge thumbs up for valve amps and tannoy speakers. Though my tannoys are a bit newer than the classics, my icon audio stereo 40 mk3 and tannoy 638 are a superb match.

[@astolatpere11]

Hope all is well with this fine shop!

[@darkdeepred6577]

When I was around 14 or 15, I used to spend hours in Audio Gold talking to the owner Richard (not this guy) and listening to various speakers. Nearly all the hi-fi I bought over the next few years was from him, not that it was a great deal, but it was a pretty memorable part of my teenage years. It used to be on the other end of Park Road to to where this was filmed. His reference speakers that weren't for sale were Celestion Ditton 66s which I adored.

[@impulsivedesigns]

Holy crap! At 2:05 you can see my first tape player and 2XL robot that used 8 Tracks. What a memory.

[@andygee8716]

There's also THE AUDIO CENTRE based in South Croydon. Alphonso, the proprietor, sells and maintains vintage audio and video equipment. He specialises in open reel tape recorders and has over 50 years invested in the audio visual business.

[@Rams_hobby]

Nice collection

[@johnanderson3853]

What a great trove of equipment. Think I've died and gone to heaven.

[@josephlalock8378]

my heaven doesn't contain that much junk. the shelves full of junk / worthless units made more of an impression on me that the shelves of actual good units

[@tctc6916]

Nice Shop!

[@luisantoniomarrega1120]

Meu amigo Parabéns. Você tem uma bela coleção de aparelhos antigos, vou só palas imagem porque infelizmente não intendo inglês! Vida longa e próspera! Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil

[@THEMINDSHAFT]

Great shop Robin!

[@jamesbrannigan1630]

Right at the beginning I saw a pair of KEFs - Q series if I remember right - I have a pair in my loft both broken in transit.. Was gonna bin them but now I'm thinking of getting in touch

[@iuliancosman637]

Ok. Man is amazing your work,i like this.

[@SHARPGFX-dc9gj]

Thanks for this video. I love Japanese boomboxes. You are a great person.

[@alexandrbuslaev8089]

The DREAM!!!

[@tomdavis6371]

I owned that gorgeous Revox back in the 1990's. It just sounded unlike any other tape machine I ever heard before. Unfortunately I sold it after figuring it out to be sort of a novelty for me. I wanted to use really great tape in it and I bought into Ampex 456 I believe it was. It was ridiculously expensive and so I was forced to abandon the format.

[@eswaransundaram3464]

Really alladin cave sir super

[@fadialkadi3697]

Nice collection i wish to have them all 😬

[@jaapaap5]

i could spent weeks there...

[@rory693]

Great video. There are a few left in London still but not many though.

[@rajinderkumarkarya833]

so great,you are my big bro

[@jldotson5873]

I would have a field day in there ... to replace a vintage Technics system that was stolen from me... still hurt to this very day behind it plus a full collection of Cd ‘s 💿 Album’s and DVD ‘s 📀 cassettes. Hurts my heart a collection I built from 1986 to the present I’ve been praying 🙏🏽 that they will have a heart ♥️ and return them to me because that was my hobby that was my enjoyment that is what made me happy when I would be sad or stressed or feeling the need to chill out after a rough or bad day..my music 🎶 did that for me ... everyone needs an outlet mine was travel 🧳 and music 🎼 was and still is mine but they just don’t know they ripped the very core of my heart ♥️ out when theyvtook my equipment and my movie ‘s 🎥 and music 🎵 it will be a year come the 27th of November and it still hurts.

[@jacksonsystemslimited]

I know how you feel! I had a Technics system, which I replaced parts of it with Mid-End Pioneer kit. I replaced the Digital Technics CDP with a Pioneer PDS-707, and the Tape Deck with a CTW-806DR! I still have the Technics SBCS-70 speakers, we got burgled during a house move which I only move the amp and speakers at the time. I was coming back for the rest nd in between trips someone broke in and the hifi they didn't take they smashed, along with tons of vinyl and CD's! My Vinyl was stacked ready to go - the burglars smashed the lot. Heartbreaking, but at least I still have the speakers! Which are actually quite rare - they hardly ever pop up on eBay! I'm rockin a Pioneer SA520 these days with my Speakers (Which sound great with this amp) and a Sony Turntable. My Turntable that was stolen was an Audio Technica! Technics amp that was stolen was the SU-X502.

[@michaelvincent8306]

My daughter had a party while I was on holiday and someone stole my falcon ls3 5a gold speakers she continues to apologise for the incident I had to purchase a downgrade replacement insurance refused to pay as they were invited guests

[@GustoTheGamer]

This is awesome!!!!

[@NeptuneReturnz]

I used to live downstairs! Noisy shop!

[@sting64az]

I used to live next door simply amazing.

[@lazycalm41]

Most of the gear in this video would blow todays rubbish out of the water! I simply have to visit this place!

[@MrMelinaone]

My kind of sound man

[@SS-gq2zp]

OMG!!!!!!!Heaven

[@Noeman2009]

I have one the latest sound system from Yamaha and enjoy it very much but I still miss the signature of warm and pure sound (NO DSP) from an old sound system from 20 years ago.

[@Loppy2u]

Does the Numark M4 mixer shown in video have decent sound quality considering its price?

[@mikesilao7311]

Wow....👌👌👌👌👌

[@hifi-vintage7465]

Amazing

[@Justwantahover]

I wish I had a place like that for my speaker drive units.

[@fratoni3654]

Che bellezza di cose...

[@vsmichael1]

In all of that stuff would you have the cover for a Harman kardon A-300 amplifier? The metal cage not the wood.

[@vintagestereocollector4159]

His one of the real collector/ Lots of stereos like VINTAGE that you’ve never seen before

[@jenniferschmitzer299]

I’ve seen stuff like this in person but I think I am a really old person lol. Not everything he has mind you, just bits and bobs

[@FrightfulAccountant]

I have some old Technics 3 way speakers with 10 inch woofers, got them second for like 50 euros. And believe me I have heared expensive bi-wired, narrow tower B&W speakers and while the B&Ws may win in the tweeter department, their bass is so outgunned by wath my cheap 10 inchers can do. People don't realize anymore what a good old fashioned big woofer can do to the music. ;-)

[@slobodanjozejoksimovic973]

Da li je na prodaju koji magnetofon uher rojal de luxe i sg 520 ili magnetofon glave za iste

[@dancemaniaco]

old is gold !!!!!!

[@Deeky76]

Real proper hifi 👍.. unlike the junk modern days shit today

[@urban_degenerate6139]

Hey fuck you some digital stuff is really fucking good.

[@gman1087]

Wow ...just came across ur chsnel by chance...can you say where yiur shop is ...i want to visit

[@hifi.david.]

make a site and sell some of it, i'll buy the boomboxes

[@jeremylord5050]

I need a pioneer cl100 tweeter replacement desperately please!

[@pingomez647]

why you guys have be across the pond hi from the usa hope one day visit your shop if i can take trip to england .

[@klausimmerath9639]

This Chop, is a Paradise for me. 😉☝️🤔😉👍👍👍👍. I'm looking, the good old Hifi, Amplifier from Technics and Yamaha 😘👍👍👍☝️. How is your Chop?

[@samtyler100]

There's a reason this shop is based in Crouch End/Highgate because only the rich can afford the extortionate prices these guys charge.If this shop was based in the poorer parts of London it would have closed down years ago.I urge anyone to check out their web site.There's a Dual 505 currently going for £325.A snip!!

[@paulbennell3313]

I thought it looked like one of those places. I got most of my stuff for free in the 90's when it was worth nothing. People are asking pisstake prices for very ordinary equipment these days because punters don't know any better and can't be arsed to do a bit of research online.

[@paulbennell3313]

@@toxtethogrady6334 I've not had any new toys for years for exactly that reason.

[@Haribo7432]

After the office documentary David Brent decided to change carrier and pursue his passion in audio

[@rafchannel873]

Τέλειο!!

[@dmomcilovic9185]

Lol this is like my dads house, hoarding kit from the 70s

[@EARART]

🇷🇸??

[@1soulfull]

Can you fix aiwa cs 880 boom box. problem with tape reel constantly spinning. and give it a once over?

[@lamarhthree924]

I just wish I had one hi-end audio even if it was the simplest kind!

[@reinhartfrais8549]

Hello Sir I am looking for a sansui au 317 in top condition . Can you help please Best regards Reinhart Frais Ps. What other sansui amps du you have ?

[@sanjeevkumar-hx4hi]

by the way what is the address of this shop, do anyone have any idea. love from india.

[@slobodanjozejoksimovic973]

Da li postoji neka

[@paulofagundes6632]

Sonho de lugar parabéns

[@KlipschHead281]

I've owned so much of what he showed in that shop. I grew up around these places, miss them greatly.

[@ReferenceFidelityComponents]

Great shop...from one uk tannoy specialist to another ;-) (there's one other professional in the uk for all things vintage Tannoy 😉..from design and build of cabs to rebuilding drive units and new ptp crossovers). Agree about Tannoys...they have scope for way better performance in better modern cabinets...the originals were mostly an afterthought and pretty coloured sounding. Hpd 315s are imho the ullimate domestic speaker choice in a well designed cabinet...more so than the more sought after MG series. Factory crossovers can be massively improved on too...but there aren't any curcuits on line that are anywhere close to correct...just guesswork mostly. You have to spend silly money today to better them.

[@Nigel-nar53]

Cool 👍

[@ninhosilva3769]

fiquei com água na boca.

[@billybob-392]

i have a pairof the KEF's that te host is sitting next to while being interviewed.... :)

[@luisalbertonavarro2026]

Balla cuantas cosas como kisiera estar serca para octener unos deesos aparatos de sonido me facinan.

[@wizzelhoart]

found me a new unintentional asmr !

[@MrPitatom]

We don't have anything like that in Melbourne Australia. I would literally live there.

[@raksh9]

Hi Fi Exchange in Clifton Hill is the closest I can think of. Trevor Lee is Kew was good, but the retail location is closed now. But still not like this.

[@ivanhoe2213]

i m going to visit on december 2019. Please write where it is?

[@jamesw4895]

Wheres is this in australia

[@crom1701]

I use a Stanton cartridge. What's wrong g with them?

[@duvedi16]

Do you have deck cum amplifier built in one set? Kindly reply sir

[@Lestaatbites]

heaven