Published on
7th November 2024

YG Acoustics & Vitus Audio Listening Event
Sat. 16th November 2024
Lowering the Noise Floor
Trade-in & Ex-Demo Offers
On the shop stereo - The Smile & Nils Frahm

We're now entering the darkest part of the year, the perfect time to find solace in our music collections and seek a sense of calm in our listening spaces.

This month, we have a special feature on audio products to help you 'lower the noise floor' of your hi-fi - reducing vibrations & eliminating any electrical noise getting into your system - and connecting you with your music on a deeper level.

There are a few places left for our immersive listening event at the shop on Saturday, November 16th (11am-4pm). You'll experience three high-end hi-fi systems. The main system has the YG Acoustics Hailey 3 Reference Loudspeakers powered by the Vitus Audio SIA-030 Integrated Amplifier.

Find out more details and reserve your FREE place here, or call Alex: 0208 440 9509 

We’ve added new items to our Ex-Demo Sale - there are some great savings on high-end hi-fi from British brands such as Naim, Linn, and Exposure. Click here to explore.

Don't forget to take advantage of our Winter Trade-In Offers. There are four deals from YG Acoustics, Linn, Bowers & Wilkins & Wilson Audio. Get money back on your hi-fi to invest in something brand new!

Take care,

Dean & Alex

P.S. We've got an exciting event planned for December, our last of the year, where we look East, to the Land of the Rising Sun...

Upcoming Hi-Fi Event

YG Acoustics & Vitus Audio - Sat. 16th November

Join us for an immersive listening event on Saturday, November 16th (11am-4pm), featuring three high-end hi-fi systems, including the YG Acoustics Hailey 3 & Carmel 3 speakers powered by the Vitus Audio SIA-030 & SIA-025 Integrated Amplifiers.

Enjoy expert insights from Alan Sircom (Hi-Fi+), Chris Rees (YG Acoustics), and Glen Furness (AIRT), along with refreshments from 1pm.

Limited places available—reserve your FREE spot now or call Alex at 0208 440 9509.

Hi-Fi Brands - Blog

Lowering the Noise Floor

Your music, on a deeper level

“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.”

- Nate Silver, US political forecaster

Read our special feature on audio products to help you 'lower the noise floor' of your hi-fi - reducing vibrations & eliminating any electrical noise getting into your system - and connecting you with your music emotionally.

We’ll look at the three ways you can achieve this by applying the three key principles of LTNF: 1. Acoustically, 2. Electrically, and 3. Mechanically.

Hi-Fi Offers

Trade-In Offers

Trade-In Offers

YG Acoustics
Get the full price you paid for your current speakers off the price of a YG Acoustics Loudspeaker. Find out more

Wilson Audio
Get a generous trade-in price on your high-end loudspeaker for a brand-new Wilson Audio loudspeaker. Find out more

Bowers and Wilkins
Trade in your old speakers & get 20% off Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series D4 Loudspeakers. Find out more

Linn
Trade in your current turntable and get £750 off a brand new Linn LP12 Majik Complete Turntable. Find out more

Music & Culture

Music on the shop stereo

Below is a selection of current favourites playing in the demo room:

1. “Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94” LP

Reliving the good old days - when the UK had a genuine underground music culture. 

2. Nils Frahm - “Spells (Paris)”

We missed out on tickets to see Nils Frahm when he played the Barbican this summer. This is the lead track from his live performance on the same tour in Paris. Merci Beaucoup Nils!

3. Xylitol - “Anemones” LP

Xylitol releases her debut on Planet Mu Records. For the new-age junglists.

4. The Smile - “Cutouts” LP

Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood are still making incredible music together.

Played on: Rega NAIA Turntable, Sugden Signature A21SE Integrated Amp & Harbeth SHL5plusXD Loudspeakers, Stillpoints isolation, and Shunyata Everest.

Music & Culture

Quincy Jones (1933-2024)

We’re sad to hear of the passing of Quincy Jones this week - a true Renaissance man. He produced iconic tunes from songs by Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and most famously, Michael Jackson. He was also an artist in his own right, playing jazz trumpet & piano. A favourite is the much-sampled classic “Summer in the City.”

Listen to it here.

R.I.P Quincy.

Music & Culture

Reverb - An exhibition celebrating art & sound - until 22nd Dec.

Reverb Exhibition @ 180 The Strand, London 

If you missed The Reverb Exhibition, which we featured in last month's newsletter, don’t worry! Due to popular demand, Vinyl Factory has extended the exhibit until December 22nd 2024.

This multimedia exhibition celebrates the merging of art & sound. The show’s highlights include “Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1” created and programmed by New York artist Devon Turnbull. And, Jeremy Deller is showing his excellent documentary - Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992.