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A New Generation of Music Fans Is Building Stereos From Scratch
The old-fashioned appeal of audio kits never goes away. Especially during a pandemic.
A Stereomour amp from Bottlehead.
Photographer: Janelle Jones for Bloomberg Businessweek
Brad Breedlove never considered himself an audiophile. The project manager for an Indianapolis-area industrial piping company has been collecting vinyl for about five years, and the records in frequent rotation on his midrange Audio-Technica turntable include the well-worn now-classics that belonged to his parents when he was growing up.
It’s a good stereo system—but not obsessively so—that includes SVS Ultra Bookshelf speakers and an SVS SB 4000 subwoofer powered by a Schiit Vidar amp.