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We’ve been buying and selling great music since 1979. As a part of downtown Novato, people love to drop by our friendly store and chat about music, life and all things fun. To celebrate more than 40 years in the music business we’re starting our first web site.
We hope you like it.
Whether you’re a long standing friend or meeting us for the first time, you’re welcome. If you’d like to see any features added, have questions or just want to send good vibes, please leave a comment.
Don R. Lewis at Pacific Sun features many record stores in the Bay Area and discusses how record stores are thriving.
Kirk Heydt, owner of Spin Records in Petaluma.
“…..Petaluma radio DJ Jason “Scone Bone” Scogna also recommends Watts Music (1211 Grant Ave.) in Novato because, “to them, it’s not about making a sale, it’s about creating a customer.” Which is something he not only respects, but sees as a smart move—because everyone in the record-collecting community talks and shares stories, good and bad.
“You know, take an album like Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers’ live, last show at Max’s in Kansas City,” Scogna says, by way of example. “Maybe a $10 record; Watts had it for $7. So, totally worth it.”
Indeed, a stop at Watts immediately reveals the long-forgotten smell of the record store. Used and new vinyl is neatly organized among that truly dead form of physical media: the CD. The gentleman working the counter is friendly and doesn’t bombard customers with his musical taste or the dreaded question, “Is there something specific you’re looking for?”
Friendly service matters because, honestly, shopping for vinyl can be intimidating. No one wants to come off like a newbie, and many record-store owners are clichés of John Cusack’s High Fidelity Rob Gordon character, with his menagerie of know-it-all pseudo-employees who’d prefer you shop elsewhere even though they’re ostensibly trying to make a living through record sales.”
Music fans around the world love the warm and natural sound of analogue vinyl records.
Unfortunately, with long-term storage of vinyl records comes shape distortion that can make your old records sound far from what they should. And even a slightly warped record might still be playable, the added pressure from the stylus will damage the groove adding noise and unnecessary wear that eventually could damage the disc. This innovative audio accessory Orb DF-01i allows you to correct the warps and avoid shape distortion and wear
Imagine if you could repair the warp on that otherwise valuable or favourite record. Now you can.
The Orb Disc Flattener uses a unique heating technique which is applied with two semiconductor heater films, one on the top and one on the bottom. By thermally controlling the heating-up phase and cooling-down phase, the warped record is allowed to properly relax and return to its original flat state.
The machine heats only the outer edge and centre of the record. The grooves are not heated and therefore their sonic shape is preserved.
The entire process takes four hours; two to heat up and two to cool down.
Contact us to learn more about how to restore your prized records!