There are some underlying uncertainties when you as an end user consumer purchase a consumer electronic product:

Is it about to be replaced by a newer and better model ?
If I wait will it be cheaper?
If I buy this new now how long will it last?
What if the tech that this device has built into it becomes obsolete?
If I buy this will it work with what I already have?
If it breaks down will it be able to be repaired?
What if I can buy this cheaper from somewhere else?
Will it still sound as good in my own home?
Will my wife find out how much this cost me?

We all have that seminal piece of music that strikes us at a certain age and stays with us forever as part of the epiphany of adulthood. Sure I went through playing Black Sabbath at max volume when I was 14 … but that music never really stuck, it was a glandular experience rather than an education.
For me that piece of music had to wait until 19 years of age in my second year at university … along with a number of other significant life experiences …

For Carlton Audio Visual this has been a year of enforced change. The post pandemic landscape was quite different for us. Its our understanding that dealers in our marketplace with a strong online sales bias did very well during the two year lockdown period.. In this volatile post pandemic year we have worked at "being the Hi Fi business we always wanted to be" in terms of the brands we carry and the people we deal with. To this aim we have made a significant number of new acquisitions in the manner of a NATO member upgrading its armed forces to meet the threat from the east ...

Small family business models are rife with exploitation and infighting ... how do you make a business work and keep and grow its people so that they enjoy coming to work and have all the satisfiers in place for a long term relationship with their workplace?

It’s been two years of Covid Hiatus since the Munich High End HiFi show opened its doors and Magnus and I made the journey in anticipation of great things HiFi and great things German culture (ie. German Beer Halls). This is a pilgrimage that any person seriously working in this industry needs to make .