Sale of vinyl records, CDs and more to benefit KU Audio-Reader Network


Tue, 09/08/2015

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Feloniz Lovato-Winston

LAWRENCE — If you love music, collect vinyl records or simply need to update your stereo system with quality equipment for a good price, then stop by Audio-Reader’s annual benefit sale, For Your Ears Only. The 13th annual event will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St., building No. 21. Thousands of vinyl records and CDs, along with vintage and modern audio equipment, will be sold for below-market prices.

Friday night’s festivities include free food donated by local businesses, prizes and first pick on an array of sale items. Advance tickets are available for $7 at Audio-Reader, 1120 W. 11th St. They are $10 the night of the event. Admission is free Saturday with many items reduced to half-price later in the day.

This year, Lawrence, Topeka and K.C. residents donated their beloved instruments, LP collections and gently used audio equipment to the sale.

Six thousand CDs and DVDs, more than 9,000 vinyl albums and several interesting instruments including an accordion, tuba, mandolins and several guitars, have been donated.

This year’s audio highlights include subwoofers from Klipsch, Velodyne, Yamaha, Panasonic and more. REL Acoustics has donated two of their high-end model S/2 subwoofers to the event. Audio lovers can also choose from a Crown SX-724 reel-to-reel recorder and an older Crown tube mono machine as well as several Pro tape decks, plenty of Sony and Teac 4-track decks, receivers and exotic speakers, including Shahinian Obelisks and Bertagni Electro-Acoustic dipole two-ways.

Proceeds from the sale benefit Audio-Reader’s listeners, the blind, visually impaired and print-disabled. Funds help provide free reading and information services.

The Audio-Reader Network, a public service of the University of Kansas, is a free reading and information service for anyone who cannot read conventional print because of blindness or any other visual, physical or learning disability. More information is available at reader.ku.edu or by calling (800) 772-8898.

Tue, 09/08/2015

author

Feloniz Lovato-Winston

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Feloniz Lovato-Winston

Kansas Public Radio

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