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Bought my first CD player from the Liverpool store in 85. Bought it because on the same day Peter Gabriels's So was released on CD.

Yamaha - got memories of it being £270.....lasted 13 months then the laser went - heartbroken at the time as in those days there were no fit for purpose guarantees. It took me years to pay off the store card on it...

Shame, the Liverpool store's a bookies now. Sad thing is, other than Richer Sounds, there is no longer a hifi store in the city centre

My first memory of Lasky's was queueing up for what seemed like forever as a little kid.....while my mum got Noel Edmonds autograph at the Manchester branch!

Happy Days.

Are they the same people? : http://www.laskys.com/

Nothing much about them in 'About Us' section, except that they're based in Hull.

I remember visiting my uncle in London as a small boy and being taken into town on the Northern line. While the family spent the morning seeing the sights my uncle and I spent the morning on the Tottenham Court road and spent at least an hour in Laskys.

Other than that it was mail order for me via their ad in Practical Electronics (They were a big component supplier as well if I remember.) 

I built my first amp and converted a Dynatron record player from mono to stereo. (I'm ashamed to say I mounted the amp in the second speaker cabinet that I bought!!) The Garrad deck on the record player was wired for stereo and had the RCA plug already on the back for the second channel. - Happy days.

Also, I remember seeing a pair of AR speakers. they were very high end and well out of my price-range.

I hankered after a top-end Pioneer amp, Thorens TT, AR speakers - these were all sold at Laskys. The only one I ever achieved from the list was a mid-range Pioneer....such is life.

bigboss:

Are they the same people? : http://www.laskys.com/

Nothing much about them in 'About Us' section, except that they're based in Hull.

This is the online arm of the Kesa group, the owners of Comet. Full history - http://www.answers.com/topic/kesa 

Oh good grief! Laskys! Now there's a blast from the past. Yes, I remember them. I lived in the NE then so had to rely on their ads and, does anyone remember, they did a sort of advertising "newspaper" thing.  I used to pore over that. As a teenager I could probably recite the spec of anything I might reasonably lust after. Note I didn't say "afford". The pounds mounted up slowly from that Saturday job. And then one day I made it to London. Went down TCR. Wow!!

Still got the bug. There's no cure apparently. Thank goodness!

JH