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Originally Posted by Astrophe
Carlton, I lived up in Cairns in the late 1970s. I bought quite a bit of gear through Targa Hi Fi. I guess they're not around anymore. Back then, they used to stock some really good gear. I recall buying a Fons turntable with an SME arm and Shure V15 type 1V cartridge from them. Fons was a Scottish brand and no longer in existence. A shame really, because they made excellent TTs. I must have spent quite a bit of money at Targa Hi Fi....Fons/SME/Shure were all fairly expensive back then. Cheers.
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We moved to Cairns 15yrs ago, Navy posting... family never left although I had to a few times..
I remember Targa Hifi; there was also Cairns Hifi in Manunda & Stereo World on McLeod St near town... briefly, there was another high end HIFI shop opened in Cairns Central but, it didn't last long.
Sadly, they are all gone now.. The likes of JB Hifi & Harvey Norman pretty much took them out at the knees when they began stocking reasonable quality gear at prices the specialist stores just could not match...
Those hifi stores have probably been gone about 10 years now.. &, the chains responsible for their demise, don't even stock decent gear anymore unless you're in the market for a sound bar & not much else...
