Member Advice on High Street Shops

Freindly Local Record Shop

Advantages: Freindly environment, breadth of stock, knowledgable staff.
Disadvantages: Can be a bit hard to find the shop

...If you want to buy dance music records and are visiting Portsmouth, make sure you call into Hands On Records in Southsea. The shop has a friendly environment, a huge range of stocks and lots of listening points - and there is never any feeling of being ...

MagicMagpie 23.08.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Hands On Records (Southsea)

I would not spend my cash anywhere else

Advantages: Staff who know what they are doing, No pressure selling
Disadvantages: Not as cheap as some retailers

...I have nothing but praise for the staff at Sound Control these guys know what they are talking about and don't try to sell you stuff that you don't want or need. When i recently had some cash to spend on musical equipment i visited the Salford branch ...

bigp 24.12.2000 · Read full review
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Review of sound control

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS? HERE'S A GOOD IDEA.

Advantages: Prices, Staff, Stock, Guitars.
Disadvantages: Sheet music, Some staff, Lack of space in store.

Sound Control Modern Music Stores is a diamond in the rough as far as Musical Instrument purchasing is concerned. Those musicians amongst us will be interested to learn that these stores scattered around the country from London to Newcastle will find tha ...

eaglesas 09.01.2001 · Read full review
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sound control in control

Advantages: Knowledgeable employees
Disadvantages: some brances a bit out of the way

Sound contol is one of the biggest chains of music shops in Britain, with about ten branches (most of them in Scotland). In my time I have visited three of these branches in Dunfermline, Glasgow and Salford. Every time I've been impressed. The shops ...

ronaldo 14.12.2000 · Read full review
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Sound Control... Make it bigger!

Advantages: Fantastic service. Good stock of products. Great background music!
Disadvantages: Older stores are falling down. No drums?!

...made to Sound Control, be it for a new guitar or a packet of strings, has been a good one. The staff there are very welcoming and they never hard sell. My band and I have bought all of our rig there and keep going back for mo ...

dsalmon 16.04.2006 · Read full review
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