The Saturday Audio Exchange opened in 1982 with a pretty simple idea, which was to open a small used audio store a few hours a week. The owner of the store, Andy Zimmerman, had already owned a couple of a hi-fi stores at different times, one down in De Kalb, Illinois when he was a student at NIU, and another in the mid 70's in Chicago. The second one was a store called Hear Again, which is still remembered fondly by a lot of people in Chicago. It was a small used audio store (are we seeing a pattern here?) that bought, sold and traded all sorts of audio stuff, from dumpy 8 Tracks to the high end stuff (Quad 8 tracks?). He later sold his half of the store to his partner and went into a non-stereo business. A few years later he got the bug to be back in the stereo business, but really didn't have the time to open a full time store, so he started Saturday Audio Exchange, a used hi-fi store open only 101/2 hours a week. It seemed like sort of a crazy idea at the time, but here we are, into our 19th(!) year. Still open on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons, but with the Chicago store open on Sunday and a second store in Evanston to make life a little more convenient for our customers.
605 Dempster Street
Evanston, Illinois 60201
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