There are some particular parts of the devices we purvey that have made an enormous difference to the way people enjoy music in their homes.

The Rega tonearm tube is cast in a single piece and rewrote the standard for LP reproduction in the eighties. It has retained an ineffable place of superiority in the realm of record players. Rega themselves don't advertise the fact that they sell various grades of their tonearms for use by many other companies but you will find this distinctive component in use by many other brands.

Listening to music that you love can be a very schadenfreude experience ... one of my particular bitter sweet symphonies is Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens.

Like many small business in Melbourne we were locked down and closed the doors for the period to overcome the second wave of Covid 19 that escaped onto Melbourne's streets in July. We had already been in partial staff since March for the first wave.

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 …