FALLS VILLAGE — Tim Corridor wears the “audiophile” label with pleasure.
Corridor, a Falls Village resident, just lately opened the Audiophile Storage, a brand new enterprise that noticed him rework his personal storage right into a haven of high-quality sound the place prospects can take heed to music on high-end audio system earlier than buying.
“I used to be an audiophile earlier than I used to be even a musician,” stated Corridor, who is also a former audio engineer.
Although he’s lengthy liked music, Corridor stated it was about 10 years in the past that his love for listening to music on the highest presumably high quality by means of new know-how got here to him.
Musician Steven Wilson, frontman of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, had been engaged on a 5.1 encompass remix of the Sure album “Near the Edge,” one in every of Corridor’s all-time favourite bands.
All it took was one pay attention for Corridor to be satisfied that newer know-how was letting him hear music he had heard numerous occasions in a brand new approach.
“For me, it normally comes all the way down to listening to belongings you by no means heard earlier than,” Corridor stated. “It may very well be a singer taking a fast breath. It hit me in all of the feels.”
The complete swap to listening to music that approach got here throughout Superstorm Sandy in 2012 when Corridor’s massive assortment of vinyl information that have been in storage have been ruined by flood waters.
“It was a complete loss. I used to be very depressed for a pair years,” Corridor stated. “I can’t return and rebuild my vinyl. I began to search for excessive decision and digital releases; 5.1 was one thing completely different. Generally it’s nearly breaking out of what you’re used to. I’ll strive one thing completely different. Generally that actually ignites folks. It’s about listening to it in a special and higher approach than you’re used to.”
With the Audiophile Storage, Corridor hopes to share his ardour and information as a self-proclaimed audiophile.
“I can’t be the one one who needs to show up the amount a bit,” Corridor stated. “Who else needs to rock?”
It begins, he stated, by discovering out about an individual’s relationship with music.
“The very first thing I at all times ask folks is what do you prefer to take heed to, how … the place … describe what music means to you,” Corridor stated. “In the end it’s about emotion and feeling. That, to me, is so essential.”
The house itself was key to all the pieces, although.
Relatively than studying or watching on-line evaluations, Corridor needs folks to expertise the music on high-end gear. He stated his Audiophile Storage is supposed to really feel akin to the sorts of stereo shops that have been extra widespread a number of many years in the past.
“I need to recapture a little bit of that,” Corridor stated. “Any enterprise is about relationships. If I’m the pleasant neighborhood audio man, I’m accountable. I offered headphones to a pleasant girl I’m going to see on the grocery store or the library. It’s actually in regards to the relationships that matter a lot.”
Corridor stated know-how and the craftsmanship of the gear has stored tempo with the audio itself. He describes the improve in sound like going from a VHS to a 4K extremely high-definition video.
“The know-how is maintaining tempo with audio. Manufacturing has improved. You may have higher tolerances, so digital to analog copy has gotten amazingly good,” Corridor stated. “I actually do like to inform folks, whatever the price range and the worth, there’s going to be stuff these days that’s phenomenally higher.”
The Audiophile Storage sells all the pieces from earbuds to six-figure speaker programs, Corridor stated, and he’s at all times excited to introduce somebody new to all the pieces he has to supply.
“The thrill may be very actual,” Corridor stated. “I had somebody who purchased headphones who wasn’t anticipating what they have been going to listen to. Whereas actual audiophiles get all the way down to the nitty gritty and debate delicate variations, my favourite is somebody who simply … their eyes gentle up. That’s at all times going to be essentially the most thrilling factor for me.”
