Guns N’ Neuroses: The Life of a Used-Gear Specialist
During the years I lived in New York City and environs, I never learned my way around Brooklyn—something I now regret, given that borough’s emergence as a hotbed of audio creativity: our industry’s Laurel Canyon, so to speak. Such gone-but-not-forgotten brands as Futterman and Fi were manufactured there, and today Brooklyn is home to DeVore Fidelity, Lamm Industries, Mytek Digital, Grado Labs, Ohm Acoustics, and Oswalds MillAudio. The list of audio luminaries who call Brooklyn home includes Herb Reichert, John Atkinson, Steve Guttenberg, Fred Kaplan, and numberless others.
In 2012, Brooklyn’s Red Hook district became home to a different sort of audio company, one that filled a need so big that no one had actually recognized it before then: Stereobuyers, which is owned and operated by the youthful Adam Wexler, buys from audiophiles the gear they no longer want, freeing them up to buy —while at the same time offering for sale a great variety of used and vintage components, the likes of
