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- Preamp, Processor or Receiver
- Emotiva XMC-1
- Main Amp
- Emotiva XPA-2 Gen 2
- Additional Amp
- Emotiva XPA-3 Gen 2
- Other Amp
- Dayton SA1000
- Universal / Blu-ray / CD Player
- Sony BDP S590 & Pioneer DV-610AV
- Front Speakers
- JTR NOESIS 210 RT - L/R mains
- Center Channel Speaker
- Chase SHO-10 - Center
- Surround Speakers
- Chase PRO-10 - Surrounds
- Subwoofers
- Chase VS-18.1 x 2 - Subwoofers
- Video Display Device
- Vizio E550VL
- Streaming Subscriptions
- h/k TC35C/Ortofon Super OM10/Pro-Ject Phono Box S
A recent vacation put me in the neighborhood, so I asked Acoustic Sounds if they might have time to show an AV NIRVANA reporter around and was granted a private, most interesting tour of three key facilities, Acoustic Sounds, The Vinyl Vault and Quality Record Pressings.
CEO Chad Kassem started this massive undertaking (plus the Blue Heaven studio, which I must visit someday) by purchasing used vinyl, flipping it by placing classifieds in Audio, Stereophile and The Absolute Sound magazines, eventually making way into international Asian and European markets. Investing profits back into the company, he hired two more guys to help catalog and package the massive inventory he had begun to acquire. Little did Kassem know the mountaintop he rolled this snowball down would foster an avalanche. Acoustic Sounds not only sells, but buys too, often from elderly former customers that are exiting the hobby. Compact Discs are becoming part of the collection as the decline of sales makes these collectable, as well.
Our first stop was The Vinyl Vault, where purchased collections are sorted, cleaned, listened to, graded, cataloged and stored. Here we are looking at part of the massive, 50,000+ Texas Collection.
CEO Chad Kassem started this massive undertaking (plus the Blue Heaven studio, which I must visit someday) by purchasing used vinyl, flipping it by placing classifieds in Audio, Stereophile and The Absolute Sound magazines, eventually making way into international Asian and European markets. Investing profits back into the company, he hired two more guys to help catalog and package the massive inventory he had begun to acquire. Little did Kassem know the mountaintop he rolled this snowball down would foster an avalanche. Acoustic Sounds not only sells, but buys too, often from elderly former customers that are exiting the hobby. Compact Discs are becoming part of the collection as the decline of sales makes these collectable, as well.
Our first stop was The Vinyl Vault, where purchased collections are sorted, cleaned, listened to, graded, cataloged and stored. Here we are looking at part of the massive, 50,000+ Texas Collection.
