The challenges of the last year have been enough to take the wind out of many sails, both personal and business. But when we spoke with Tony Stantzos, who, with Nick Papas, co-owns the Audio Solutions hi-fi store in Mascot near Sydney Airport, he was as ebullient as ever.
“For us, to be honest, look, we can’t really complain. We had a very reasonable year,” he said. “We were pretty much open all the way through — never really told that we had to close, so we obviously followed all the protocols, had the warning signs up to sanitise your hands, and only allowed a few people in the shop in any given room at any time.”
A reasonable if very different year, then, and one in which Audio Solutions celebrated its 20th anniversary after two decades running one of Sydney’s iconic destination hi-fi stores. Back in 2000, Nick and Tony started Audio Solutions to combine Tony’s experience in custom installation of home theatres and multiroom audio with Nick’s experience in high-end two-channel audio.
Over the years the balance of business between custom and two-channel has fluctuated — “there
