OPEN SATURDAY but closed Fri, Sun & Mon to honour the fertilty goddess Ostara
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OPEN SATURDAY but closed Fri, Sun & Mon to honour the fertilty goddess Ostara 〰️
Hi there,
We’re a bricks and mortar, actual, physical place on the cusp of Surry Hills and Darlo (Sydney,Aus)…full of people and sounds and things and stuff :) But this here is the interwebs, and you can use it for groovy things like calling us, perusing our wares or just poking around to see what’s what.
A word about online orders: we triple check all stock before we send it out, but we’re also human so if it turns out that there is something wrong with the vinyl we’ve sent, we will sort you out one way or the other, please just get in touch.
Very occasionally, a record you’ve bought online with us is a ghost in the machine, in this situation we’ll refund you for that item and its share of the postage and fill the remaining order and if you’ve qualified for free postage, we’ll honour it.
Help Us Buy A Sound System
for all future Crown Street Mardi Gras free street parties.
ABOUT US
We’re a physical store located Eastside Sydney, Australia. We open 11am - 5pm. 7 DAYS A WEEK. 34/277 Crown St, Surry Hills (cnr Campbell St).
We dig house, techno, rock, electronic, indie, pop, hip hop, bass music, reggae, funk, soul, jazz, blues…and anything with a groove…
We sell turntables, needles, headphones & accessories. We de-warp records, record vinyl to digital and can fix your Technics 1200/1210. + we can pro clean vinyl. @recordstoresydney
We’ll happily ship anywhere outside our swooshy borders but we are far away and AustraliaPost sets the rates. If shipping options for your country aren’t turned on, please contact us and we’ll set them up. Click HERE to order online.
We’ve got plenty of on street parking, although you may need to go around the block few times before you pull the rockstar right out the front. The 352 from Bondi Junction to Marrickville/Newtown stops right out the front.
We Can De-Warp Vinyl
Operating under the same principle as the old 'two panes of glass in the sun' routine, the DISC FLATTENER evenly heats the platter for two hours and then allows it to cool for another two hours. All the while an even pressure is supplied by the weighted canopy of the device. This ensures an even and constant temperature with no risk of further damage to your beloved vinyl.
Cost = $10 / Disc
Duration = 4 hours.
Turntablist Tools
These scratch records contain specially edited breakbeats, beat loops and custom skipless samples to scratch vinyl with.
We retail a turntablist range you can check out here.
We also wholesale the Cut N Paste label.
Get in touch if you’re a store interested in stocking these records.
Turntables
We stock world-renowned Audio-Technica turntables / record players (as well as headphones). A-T have been around for over 50 years and are so good at what they do they make the mics for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Their decks are no exception to this level of quality. Most people have a lot of questions and we endeavour to provide answers here, but by all means get in touch, come in or call to get the low-down. Butif you are already sold, get ‘em noline here (free shipping within Australia).
By way of brand-quality evidence, A-T make a $7000 moving coil cartridge, so they’re not going to tarnish their name with low quality home-HiFi
Needles/Styli
The stylus is arguably the most important component. It's typically a diamond. On cheap entry level turntables, it is usually not a diamond and is terrible for your vinyl (except our LP60 which sports the AT91 diamond :)
In moving magnet cartridges (the most common) magnetic conductors inside the cartridge surround a magnet and as it moves its magnetic field is distributed between the conductors. This energy flows through copper coil to produce an electrical signal which is sent to the amplifier to be reproduced through the speakers.
We can find almost any replacement needle. Click here for way more info.
Technics 1200/1210 Service
We service and repair the infamous and ever-lasting Technics 1200/1210 turntables in house.
$185 (or $300 a pair) for the full clean, calibrate, replace leads & lights & fader ...