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wellington, new zealand / records, home audio, shoes etc. Lovely stuff.

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Back again with their groove this weekend only @ havanabar!

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Come get lost in deep groovy music this Friday night only @ HAVANA bar from 9pm onwards 😮‍💨💃

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Few home systems make their priorities as clear as the one built by @mazdef in Wellington, New Zealand.

At the centre of it all is a pair of Altec 9844 studio monitors, a design whose roots go back to the Altec 844A introduced in the mid-1960s. Conceived for recording and broadcast control rooms, the 844A was later recoded as the 9844A and represented a more compact interpretation of Altec’s professional horn-loaded philosophy.

The basic architecture is unmistakably Altec: two 12-inch low-frequency drivers combined with an 811B sectoral horn, crossing around 800 Hz. Several versions of the 9844 existed over the years, with different drivers and specifications, so these monitors are better understood as a long-running professional platform rather than one single fixed configuration.

What makes @mazdef’s system especially interesting is everything surrounding them.

Amplification comes from a Luxman MQ-70 and a McIntosh MC7270, with a McIntosh C26 handling preamplification duties. Vinyl playback is built around a Garrard 301 fitted with Ortofon SPU cartridges, including an SPU #1A and SPU A Mono, partnered with a Redboy / Altec 4722 step-up transformer setup.

There is also a Tascam 32 reel-to-reel, adding another piece of genuine studio-era hardware to a system already deeply rooted in professional audio history.

And then there is the room itself: USM furniture, records everywhere and even R2-D2, making the whole setup feel personal rather than museum-like.

A great example of how vintage studio equipment can move into a domestic environment without losing the character that made it interesting in the first place.

#hifiretro #hifisignal #altec #vintagehifi

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August DJ line up.
Testing out Thursdays over August as well.

A few new specialty ongoing DJs popping up next month.

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Thank y’all for coming to VV to help building this community together. Forever grateful for the journey we have shared. Positivity and Humanity before biz. This Weekly VV Fam Part.1 Stay Blessed ppls.

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28th March a lil @tape__lab Takeover colab with @dillydallylovesyou pop up party style! Incredible lineup of NZ talent !!! Big ups

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This Friday, we open the doors for our last cellar door session of the year! Records by @mazdef and @basedliving_ and kai from our friends @dillydallylovesyou . Come early, as this will pack out for sure!
4pm-8pm 10 Holland St, Te aro.
See you Friday Cru!
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T O N I G H T
8pm 💃🏽👻🎃🕺🏽

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on YouTube now @djkerb1972 dropping jewels #dj #cubastreet #barbershop

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A wild throwback to when I managed ‘Scenario’, a record store that used to be located in soho, courtesy of my OG brother from another for life @zigpun who sent these snaps 👊🏽💯

Man this is such a trip down memory lane - that wall tells so many stories and hope I’ve still got that Supreme tee somewhere 😂

My previous spots were at @mrbongoworldwide & Major Flavas (which is where I got the sneaker spot Slammin’ Kicks their first location and to my knowledge may have subsequently become the first record/sneaker store in the world) so brought that experience along and worked alongside some great friends. Big ups to Ed, Dave, Tigs (🕊️🙏🏽🤍) Vee, Marek, Tim, Aiana, IQ, Will & Rene 🙌🏽

I was also one of the buyers and by employing the contacts I’d developed from beat digging and those previous record stores I worked at, helped to ensure that we had all the upfront wax as well as used records from an eclectic array of genres - Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz, Soul, Disco, Reggae etc. Crazily we had it so tight that if the latest vinyl was dope and we didn’t have it, it didn’t exist.

Our clientele was crazy and we had all types of faces popping through our doors, from previous customers and new ones who’d discovered us, to all the key radio, pirate radio and club DJs. Peeps such as Mark Ronson, MIA, Swerve, Wiley, Giles, Benji etc used to come through and good friends like Semtex, Turkish etc used to drop promos in before they’d even serviced their database.

That’s one of the reasons why we became a spot that people used to bless things on the early - such as the Kanye and John Legend mixCDs that they dropped before their debut albums (bless up to Jenny for looking out 🙏🏽) we literally ended up selling hundreds, which was a vital way to break music to those tastemaker DJs and the marketplace back then.

We also carried other items including tees, books, DVDs, magazines, toys etc. as representing the culture to the fullest was our paramount philosophy.

I am truly blessed for these formative experiences, as the friendships formed and knowledge gained is an absolute privilege 🙏🏽

#tbt #scenario #recordstore #recordshop #vinylrecords #ziggyarcher #kishkash #throwback

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Happy Friday, Cru!

It’s been a while, we are excited to announce our first cellar door session of the year, happening next Friday, the 12th.

We’ll be joined by our favorite winemakers and friends, @halcyon_wines along with the legendary @_tommy_tomato serving up the best pies around.

Records by local legends @mazdef and @michaeljohntakarangislowburn

Join us from 4 PM to 8 PM. Pull up early—this one will pack out for sure 💚

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