Jerry Raskin's 'Needle Doctor' - gone ??
 

various other sites report he closed up shop....... just like that ?

Yup....it's true. Sorry to see them go.

Noooooooooooo! Dammit! I stop in there all the time. Sigh. :tears:

anyone hear a reason ? I thought vinyl was back ??

Just the standard challenges of sustaining a brick 'n mortar store these days.

Great site, I shopped there occasionally over the years and got good advice. The post I saw said he’d been in business for 40 years and had 10 employees. It may just be that he wanted to retire: a small, one-person business like that can be very difficult to sell, so it’s not unusual for a retiring owner to just liquidate inventory and close the doors.

But they did a LOT of internet sales too.

I read this on the Hoffman forums last month, looks like they did close up shop.

- Buck

Sad. Can look around my listening space and see several items I've purchased from them over the years. His website was also a great resource.

When I lived in Minneapolis it was always a treat to go to his shop and talk vinyl to folks who loved it as much as I did. :)