Just want to keep everyone in the loop that we will be closed for the September labour day weekend. Not open on Saturday, September 5th, but reopen for regular business on Tuesday, September 8th.
Stay safe on the roads this busy long weekend and have fun getting your kids back into school with their new backpacks and school supplies! Woohoo! Here comes fall
We will be closed for the BC Day long weekend from Saturday, August 1st, reopening on Tuesday, August 4th.
Hope everyone gets out and enjoys all this province has to offer! Stay safe
Today I’ve finally added to the website, pictures of the 8th annual vintage audio and record swap meet . From all the people we talked to, the vendors had a lot of fun, met some new people, and introduced others to the wonderful arena of music loving from yesteryear.
It was a good day, maybe a little too hot, but compared to other years where it was hit and miss on the weather, this year we hit it out of the park. So many people came up to us afterwards and thanked us for putting on such a unique event. During the course of the year, others have written saying they wished they lived closer as there isn’t a love for the good ol’ stuff in their neck of the woods.
We want to thank all of you for making this type of event possible, by stopping by, bringing new audio enthusiasts into the fold and just for supporting our company. Without all of you, there wouldn’t be us – Innovative Audio.
LET VINTAGE AUDIO ROCK!
What
a roller coaster ride this month has been for us – namely with our website.
Firstly we want to apologize to our faithful customers that have been so patient with us as we try to get our website back up and operational. We unfortunately were hacked – this meant our website was down for most of October. We know there is still a ways to go to get it back to where it was, so please have just a bit more patience.
Our equipment for sale pages are back up and running with inventory updated weekly, as per usual, and pictures added too.
We will keep you in the loop as everything is brought up to speed. If you find something that is not working, please just let us know and we’ll get it updated as soon as possible.
Until next month,
Susan
Can you feel it? A touch of fall is in the air. Seems like we just turn around and summer is over.
But it’s also a great time to try out some new music! With so many options available nowadays getting great deals is not a problem. It’s like going into a used book store, not so hard paying $5.00 used vs $25.00 for a new book in order to check out a new author – it’s the same way with music. How can you go wrong with a $0.99 album? We have an amazing record room where something new is always coming in. Be sure to stop in and go upstairs and see what we have available. So many specials and hard to find items are being brought in.
Estate sales and moving to smaller digs and garage sale items are coming in fast and furious. We’re processing as fast as we can and items that are available for sale are put up on our website with pictures and prices almost weekly. Be sure to check out the revamped website. Let us know if you are having any issues with it, but we’re almost done and we think it’s an improvement.
As always, if you need more information, please stop into our store. We try to spend as much time as we can with you to answer all your concerns thoroughly. If not, or you’re not local, send us an email. We’ll help as soon as possible, but again, general inquiries are handled as we have time.
We look forward to an Indian summer (okay, we’re hoping for one) and inviting old and new customers to stop in sometime, we’d be happy to see you.
Until next month,
Susan
Although we originally started our business with one foot deeply entrenched in the ‘home theater’ field (including full installations of dedicated rooms and multimedia applications), we had the other firmly planted on trade-ins and ‘vintage audio’ equipment. Over the first few years we came to realize that the home theater market was too volatile and in 2007 made the decision to simply concentrate on used two-channel audio equipment, including our real passion – vintage gear.
June 2014
UPDATE: I’ve added lots of pictures to our 2014 Garage Sale page – check it out!
This month the big highlight for us is our Annual Garage Sale…..it’s our 7th ONE! Where does the time go!
It’s going to be our biggest event EVER!! I know we say that every year, but it’s true – it keeps growing and growing because the love of music is growing! The weather is looking to cooperate. We have some amazing guests that will be onsite for signing and picture taking and we have people arriving from Hawaii, Los Angeles and Washington State coming to see what all the hoopla is about. This is the one event in North America every music enthusiast wishes they had in their neck of the woods. We will have lots of photos throughout the day on Facebook and afterwards on our website for those who can’t make it. We know this is going to be a fun day to chat about the industry – where it was and where it’s going. Vancouver is THE hot spot for vintage audio!
Gord & I always look forward to this event (okay…. The DAY of the event we enjoy – the prep work is daunting) as we get to chat with so many of our customers that can’t come in during business hours as often as they’d like and we can be really busy in the shop and not able to catch up as much as we’d like, but it’s always fun to hear what they’ve been up to when they come in on this day. Be sure to say hi to us!
Our business is always changing and this time we’ve spruced up our turntable section with an improved display area. This is part and parcel because we now have available a talented gentleman – Geoffrey Deering, who has refinished a lot of our speakers we have/had for sale in the past few months; built the “soon” to open record room display cabinets and the Altec 19s you might have seen on Facebook. Please call us if you need any woodworking or wood refinishing work! He is simply amazing.
Have to get more work done, but we are looking forward to a great summer!
Until next month,
Susan
Yippee! Spring is in full bloom and yes, those ‘Garage Sale’ signs are starting to pop up on many a street corner in neighborhoods across Vancouver!
Recently, we purchased the assets of a repair shop in North Vancouver, and after boxing, packing and moving three truckloads of goods, we have many weeks ahead of us to unpack, sort and inventory literally hundreds of thousands of much needed (and very hard to find ) parts required for our repair department.
We are also very pleased to announce that we are now offering full wood restoration in our long list of services, and pictures / details will be available soon on our website.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be digging deep within the hidden (and some forgotten about) racks of audio gear in our back warehouse. We are trying to make as much room as possible by clearing out stock that has been there for years – yes, YEARS! – and not used for anything. In most cases, these were items that were purchased as bulk buys, and simply put away to be dealt with at a later date. Well, that ‘later date’ has come and gone so we need to clear house! Look for SKIDS of cool audio components being offered in our upcoming – and now nationally famous – Vintage Audio & Record Garage Sale.
Over the past month we have been running radio ads on the Red Robinson Show – called the ‘Red Rock Diner’ – on CISL AM 650 Sunday afternoons from noon to 4 pm. This station is found on the AM dial at – you guessed it – 650. We have had a great response from both customers and listeners and wanted to say ‘thank you’ to all those that heard these ads and came to our shop to see what the hoopla was all about. We hope that it was worth the visit!
May has traditionally been a quiet month for our shop but this year we are already seeing that this is not the case. With tons of new gear being put on the sales floors, our repair department running at full tilt, and even our speaker department is seeing a huge increase it looks like it’s going to be one busy month!
With that, I guess I need to get back to work putting those skids of goodies together!
Until next month,
Gord
