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This is the London Sound website.  Read on for service, overhaul, repair and record cleaning advice, help, hints and tips. Click on this sentence to go straight to the Repairs page, but please return to look at our other useful links.  Please click on the following brand names for service advice:-  

Acoustic Research A&R Cambridge ADC Aiwa Akai Alpha Amerex Alphason AMC Arena AR Arcam Ariston Armstrong Assemblage Audio Innovations Audio lab Audiolab Aurex Avance AVI B&O B&W Beard Beocord Beogram Beomaster Boston Acoustics Bose Brennel BSR Bush Cambridge Audio Carlton Carver cd repairs Celestion Cerwin Vega Chord Connoiseur Cord Counterpoint Creek Croft Custom Sound Cyrus Dansette Decca Denon Dual Dunlop Dynatron Eagle Echo EAR Exposure Fender Fenman Fennman Ferguson Ferrograph Fisher Fisher Gale Garard Garrard Goldring Goldring Lenco Goodmans Grundig Hacker Haffler Hafler Harbeth Harman Kardon Haybrook Heybrook Hitachi HMV IMF Inkel Integrex ITT KB Jamo JBL Jim Rogers JR JVC Kef KEF Kelvin Labs Kenwood Klinger Korting Leak Lenco Linx Lumley Lux Luxman Lynx Marantz Marconiphone Martin Logan McIntosh Meridian Michell Michel Micro Seiki Mission Mitsubishi Monitor Audio Murphy Musical Fidelity Nad NAD Naim Nakamichi National  NEAL Northcourt NRG Nytech Onix Onkyo Optonica Panasonic Philips Phillips Pilot Pioneer Proton PYE QED Quad Quad Electroacoustics Radford Radio Radiogram Rega Revolver Revox Roberts Roksan Rogers Rotel Sansui Sanyo Scan Dyna Servo Sound Sharp Sherwood Sonab Sony Soundlab Spendor Sugden Superscope Tandberg Tannoy Teac Technics Telefunken Toshiba Thorens Tresham Trilogy Trio Uher Vega Vintage Vox Wem Wharfdale Wireless Yamaha vintage repairs  Vintage valve radios and radiograms email all enquiries, it's cheaper than a 'phone call!

Hi Fi Repairs - Free Estimates
All repairs guaranteed 12 months, (obviously excludes repairs carried out free of charge!).
 
Remember, we give advice almost free - you just pay for the 'phone call.
 
LONDON SOUND
SPECIALIST VINTAGE HI-FI, RADIO, TUNER AND RADIOGRAM REPAIRER
 
Please note, we close on Wednesdays at 1pm, and do not open at weekends.  We do not open on public holidays.
Please email or 'phone before calling into the shop, to avoid a wasted trip.
 
Shop address:-  389 (B) Alexandra Avenue, Rayners Lane, Harrow, HA2 9EF, England
emaEmail:-  londonsound@msn.comil:-

(emails monitored regularly with most being replied to within a couple of hours - if you do not receive a reply within a day, (working days only), please send a new email - some emails simply get lost). Please note this advice as we often hear of emails not arriving. If you get no answer, email again.

 
Click on the brand name of your equipment to the left or above for repair information or scroll down for other links
In September 2012, Mike Solomons will have been in business repairing hi-fi equipment for 45 years.  Originally under another name, this business became London Sound in 1969 and has gone from strength to strength ever since!  All birthday presents gratefully accepted!
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CD Repairs
We mend, service, repair, overhaul audio radio and hi-fi equipment, including vintage radios, mainly from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
NO COMPETITION - BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY HI-FI REPAIRER IN THE COUNTRY OF ITS KIND
and certainly London's greatest!
Two notable dates:- 
December 19th 2009, London Sound was 40 years old!  Also, on
January 23rd 2012, we celebrated 22 years at our present freehold shop address!
 
If your equipment sounds wrong - come to London Sound - if we can, we'll mend it!  If not we'll advise. We do not sell new equipment, and very rarely sell secondhand, so if we advise you to buy new, there's no profit motive!
London Sound was established and registered in 1969 by Mike Solomons, although the business was founded in 1967, (under another name). 
 
For further information:-
 
Further down you will see what we can repair, with a list of products handled and some links to other parts of this website.
Look down the page to see what we offer, then follow the links to our specialist pages.  Pictures of the shop and its owner, Mike Solomons, are also further down this page. For hi-fi repairs, click the brand name of your equipment in the list to the left.
 
The following links will take you to our leaflet and free advice pages:-

We are slowly preparing special pages for the main products we deal with. The first ones are for AVI Armstrong, Leak, NEAL, Quad, Radford and Rogers - just click on the name on the left - or in this sentence. We also have a CD repairs link.  More will follow soon, starting with A&R and Tandberg. This does not mean we are less happy with other brands, just that we have more information on these brands, even on very early models, in our detailed service data records, making it easier to prepare these special pages.

 

 

For repair information, click on the brand of your equipment in the list above or on the left.
 
What do we do here at London Sound?
 

We mend, service, repair, overhaul audio and hi-fi equipment. We do not offer "quick fixes", neither are we a dealer or retailer trying to sell you something new. We just put things right, make them work, and if possible, we make them work like new. This can range from vintage wireless receivers from the 1930's, right up to some of the finest hi-fi of the 90s. We do not normally work on equipment less than ten years old - as if it is good equipment, but broke that quickly, you can reasonably expect the manufacturers to carry out a free or very inexpensive repair. But if they refuse, please ask us.

We happily repair amplifiers, receivers, cassette decks, loudspeakers, record decks, tape recorders, (reel to reel), tuners, tuner-amplifiers, and some other hi-fi, stereo, and even mono items.

We do not repair computer, telephone or television related products.

All repairs are guaranteed for 12 months, in writing, (except for repairs carried out free of charge). Full details of the service are found on the repairs page, but in brief, all of our estimates are free, and we can often give a guide price by email, (londonsound@msn.com), or go to basic details page for more information).

Telephone for advice on our Advice Line - details below:

For technical help and advice, please email londonsound@msn.org, or ring Mike Solomons on 0906 517 7922, (UK only). Calls cost £1.53 per minute plus any network extras, with the charge made paying for the engineer's time. Callers must be 18 plus, and have the bill payer's permission. This telephone service is provided by Mike Solomons at London Sound, Harrow, through Digital Select Ltd Rowan House, 28 Queens Road Hethersett Norwich, Norfolk NR9 3DB. Their Customer Support number is 0844 448 0165.

What makes and kinds of equipment do we handle? The list on the left is not comprehensive, but should give a guide to the main types and brands handled - just look to see if your equipment is listed, and click on the name.

 

Click on any item in the lists to the left or below, to be transferred to the appropriate "repairs" page.

 
          Types of hi fi stereo, audio and vintage equipment                             
     For list of brands please look on the list above or to the left and scroll up or down
     
 

Can't see the brand name of your equipment in the list? We may still be able to help, as often the lesser known brands are of equipment made by well known manufacturers, just with a different badge! Also, we are happy to consider unusual brands and custom built equipment. All that is needed is to email write or 'phone, and we'll be happy to advise, (contact details above).

Who runs the service department? My name is Mike Solomons, I have been working in this field for nearly 45 years, and look forward to being of service.
 
You can find us at, (map):
389 (B) Alexandra Avenue
Harrow
HA2 9EF
 
For more details, please either 'phone, or look at Basic Information
 
Basic information (Contact details and more)
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                                      Above are pictured the shop, and Mike     
Solomons,  the owner of London Sound.     
 

Keith Monks Record Cleaning Service

We operate the Keith Monks vinyl record cleaning service using the cleaning machine shown to the right.

If you look closely at the photograph, it will become obvious that this is an old machine - we have offered this service, using this machine, since 1975! It has required servicing from time to time, but basically is, in our view, easily the best record cleaning machine available anywhere, at any price! And at this age, what a wonderful testament to the quality of manufacture, especially, if you consider that when London Sound purchased it in 1975 - it was second hand!

 

For further details, visit KMAL vinyl record cleaning, where you will see details of the service, as well as our charges.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can't find what you're looking for? Don't worry, it's not a full list - just email us - contact details are at Basic Information, or look first at our "Repairs" page.

 

 

Also, see if any of the other leaflets, or the correspondence page will help.

 

 

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LONDON SOUND
Hi Fi Repairs - Free Estimates
NO COMPETITION - BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY HI-FI REPAIRER IN THE COUNTRY OF ITS KIND!
High street shop, established in 1969. All repairs guaranteed 12 months,
(The guarantee obviously excludes repairs carried out free of charge)
389 (B) Alexandra Avenue, Rayners Lane, Harrow, HA2 9EF, England

TELEPHONE

For technical help and advice, please ring Mike Solomons on  0906 517 7922, (UK only).  

Calls cost £1.53 per minute plus any network extras, with the charge made paying for Mike's time. Callers must be 18 plus, and have the bill payer's permission. This telephone service is provided by Mike Solomons at London Sound, Harrow, through Digital Select Ltd Rowan House, 28 Queens Road Hethersett Norwich, Norfolk NR9 3DB. Their Customer Support number is 0844 448 0165.

The shop telephone line is normally open Monday to Friday 8.00. am. to 5.00. pm, (excluding early closing on Wednesdays - when we close at 1pm).  We do not close for lunch. Please note that the shop door is not usually opened until 10 am.

 
Email: londonsound@msn.com

 

On this site you will get an idea of what we do, here at London Sound. This includes repairing hi-fi equipment, designing and building unusual gadgets, and giving free advice. Please explore the site, from the links above. At present, the site is best navigated by following links, then returning here for the next link. Please feel free to download and copy any of these leaflets, but if you reproduce them, please remember that they are copyright material. However, we are quite happy for any of the leaflets to be reproduced in full, with the only requirement that our copyright is acknowledged, and our full contact details must be reproduced with the material concerned.
 
 
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