Fantasy Jazz Cafe - What do you have?


Imagine a Jazz cafe.  Excellent coffee, friendly baristas who know Jazz and coffee.  You want to have good speakers, and a _variety_ of reasonably priced tube amps you use in rotation.  Nothing over $5k and a penchant  for vintage.

Also needs vinyl that is reliable, not fussy, sounds great, will keep the records in good condition and you are comfortable with the staff using it.

What do you get?

erik_squires

It’s going to be a while before I get anything back. I’ve gone through about 100K getting everything started.  I didn’t do it for the money, I did it because I thought it would be fun to develop something new that I don’t think has been done before. I’ve been fortunate, and did that with a business I still own to this day. Since being sidelined with my accident, I have lots of free time and wanted some thing else to do. I listen to music all day every day and we try and test all kinds of stuff constantly. It’s something that I can do, I always loved being a Carpenter, but that’s no longer possible. I run one business, it really runs itself, but I can run another one. That’s the easy part. The hard part has been getting people to try something new. To answer your question, if I didn’t spend another dollar, it would probably take me between 5 to 6 years to get back what I put into it. Then I guess you could say I would start making some thing, money that is. I’ve already made lots of friendships, and learned an amazing amount of stuff. As far as I’m concerned, it’s already paid dividends. OK, now I got a throw in a link. blueprintacoustic.com. 

Most of these places the jazz Kissa's of Japan seem to skew to old Mac tube amps and old JBL and Klipsch horns for the most part that seems appropriate to me.