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(Sorry for taking this thread OT!)

jkeny wrote:Thanks Terry,
I remember Audiotek in Rathmines - I bought a Pioneer A400 amp there.

I bought my first real hifi system there.

Sansui FRD 25 turntable (I found the headshell + cart just the other day!)
Canbridge p50 amp
Videoton speakers.

Frank even lent me a "Proton" CD player once and I'm pretty sure it never went back to the shop! Actually now that I think of it a (far less fussy) mate of mine has it in his system.

Come to think of it I bought my first VCR there, and our first new TV, and our first kitchen "beatbox".....

Remember a place in Hibernian Way ? Early 90's ?

Can't think of the name. Short lived though.

Gerry D wrote:Remember a place in Hibernian Way ? Early 90's ?

Can't think of the name. Short lived though.

Livewire? Something like that? They did a lot of Audiolab level stuff but also a lot of awful "rack" systems from Hitatchi/Akai/Pioneer/Kenwood type brands which chipped away at their credibility.

The Hibernian way place was called LiveWires - and it was where I purchased my first real system.

Denon amp
Mission 760i speakers
Aiwa tape deck
technics CDP
kenwood trio TT with an ortofon cart!

And I tell you, it sounded feckin' great! I still have the tape deck and CDP - both still working too!! I still have the receipt too.....

Fran

Fran wrote:The Hibernian way place was called LiveWires - and it was where I purchased my first real system.

Denon amp
Mission 760i speakers
Aiwa tape deck
technics CDP
kenwood trio TT with an ortofon cart!

And I tell you, it sounded feckin' great! I still have the tape deck and CDP - both still working too!! I still have the receipt too.....

Fran

I think every time I went into that shop there was some young fella (that'd be you Fran!) buying Mission speakers.

Where is Hibernian way?
There were another 2 Hifi places along Aston quay - one where the Students travel place is now ( I think) & another further up along where the halpenny bridge is. Any one remember these?

Hifi corner beside Virgin, and Lafayette opposite the ha'penny bridge. I remember hifi corner especially well, it was the scene for a legendary Audiolab 8000A dem on a very hungover Saturday morning.

I'd forgotten LiveWires. I bought something there once I'm sure... Royal Hibernian Way connects Grafton St to Dawson St JK. Was there another place in the Irish Life Mall?

jkeny wrote:Where is Hibernian way?

Opposite Molesworth Street on Dawson St.

jkeny wrote: There were another 2 Hifi places along Aston quay - one where the Students travel place is now ( I think) & another further up along where the halpenny bridge is. Any one remember these?

Lafayette was across from the Halpenny Bridge - nearly all Aiwa stuff. Richer Sounds was a few hundred yards down past the H'alpenny Inn. The same guy had the more high end Lyric in Stephens Street.

There was another small Hifi shop, "HiFi Corner", near the old Virgin shop but it didn't last long.

Diapason wrote: Was there another place in the Irish Life Mall?

It was a TV shop as much as anything, family name like Connolly's or Conroy's or something. I remember seeing the posters for it when I worked in that building a few years back.