Laskys

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Anybody here remember "Laskys" of Tottenham Court Road?
It's the place where I brought my first Leak amplifier and Wharfedale speakers. But what I can't remember is the name of their "in-house" range of audio equipment, so if anybody can remember it I'd be grateful.
Laskys operated throught he 70's and 80's (maybe a little either side).
 
Anybody here remember "Laskys" of Tottenham Court Road?
It's the place where I brought my first Leak amplifier and Wharfedale speakers. But what I can't remember is the name of their "in-house" range of audio equipment, so if anybody can remember it I'd be grateful.
Laskys operated throught he 70's and 80's (maybe a little either side).
Yes remember them well, there was many specialist audio shops the TCR, you could make a day out visiting them, I always thought Laskys own brand was just called Laskeys
 
Yes remember them well, there was many specialist audio shops the TCR, you could make a day out visiting them, I always thought Laskys own brand was just called Laskeys

In Newcastle there was Aitken Brothers in High Bridge sold components and audio units shop was so popular queues of enthusiasts on a Saturday sadly closed because the proprietor was too old to continue for it to be replaced by a boutique , you could buy anything from a single resistor to an oscilloscope.
 
I think I bought my JVC stereo "hi-fi" HQ video reorder from Laskys TCR in about 1985. I used it to edit videos I recorded on my Panasonic Video8 video camera-recorder, that I bought from Comet, in Milton Keynes - when Comet was a catalogue store (like Argos)!
 
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Just discovered Laskys didn't actually have an "own-brand", but they did have exclusivity over "Audiotronic" equipment, relatively high quality sound seperates.
 
Richer Sounds (cracking store btw) is the same they have Cambridge Audio, Dixons was the same it had it's own electrical range made by somebody else but that escapes me
 
and like many others did over many years, including myself, did you use it to record the hits of the day from the Chart show trying to avoid the DJ voiceover and save a few quid by not having to buy the single . I am of an older generation so with me Pick of the Pops with Alan "Fluff" Freeman was a never miss show , my fingers were a blur hitting the play/record and pause buttons frantically trying to get a clean version of the song . Now if I want a song [having paid my dues over the years with vinyl , cassettes and CD's] I log onto Spotify and add to a playlist but the satisfaction never reaches anywhere near those heady days . Do I miss them ??? Not 'arf!!
 
The family group were lucky enough to have a good quality reel to reel machine, which always recorded the top 40, it was then much easier to edit onto cassette for the car player etc, much easier to skip the tunes you had from the weeks before
 
The family group were lucky enough to have a good quality reel to reel machine, which always recorded the top 40, it was then much easier to edit onto cassette for the car player etc, much easier to skip the tunes you had from the weeks before
I used to do that too, it really annoyed me hour Mark Goodier used to selfishly talk on the song outro sometimes!!!!
 
and like many others did over many years, including myself, did you use it to record the hits of the day from the Chart
Ummm... no, not me - I was already a bona fide disco DJ, so we had to buy 7inch vinyl singles from Boots, Woolworths and Our Price! Well, I was the LJ (lighting jockey) my older mate from school was usually DJ. He did alright for himself, he joined BBC and became proper sound engineer.
 
I still have a stereo with an 8-track slot, cassette slot, turntable, and AM/FM radio. Doesn't work too well, but I still have it. Also a whole bunch of 78's and 33's.
 
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