Synphonic progressive mail order/Greg Walker

I corresponded with Greg this past weekend. He is getting colored vinyls together for me. Otherwise, he has not been his cheerful self for some time. I even asked if he was ok last week out of concern. He did not reply. I’ll ask again, but I do not want to over step my welcome. I’m going through very personal problems myself I rarely talk about. It’s funny we sense other peoples problems and sadness etc. I hope Greg is ok. Greg is an all around great guy. He is in the Prog selling business for the joy of music, not money.

Atavachron wrote: Greg has always kicked serious butt ~

^ Amen. No one has better service than Mr. Walker. 

So I submitted my order to Greg at Synphonic and received it two days later. I cant say enough good things about Greg and his excellent store. He is a gentleman and a pleasure to cummunicate with and do business. I made a large order of 32 CD’s. Many of these CD’s are hard to impossible to find elsewhere and many of the ones that are available elsewhere are twice the price. The packaging was superb. He has a lot of releases I will be ordering in the future. 9 of the 10 releases not in stock will be by next month. A lot of RPI cds are on order for next month. I’m a big fan of this style. He had a lot of classic Prog, hard to get classic Prog and Prog from around the world. Also current Prog bands. The only other vendor I currently work with is my local buddy from Jersey Ken Golden. Ken has more progressive metal, new releases and jazz/fusion while Greg has more of and a constant supply of the classics and hard to find classics plus a lot of recent Prog too.    Between these two vendors my progressive rock listening will stay fulfilled. Just wanted to share some good news.   

I was flicking through the Steve Hoffman forum earlier and saw your post showing your collection.
Good Stuff.

mellotronwave wrote: A couple of months ago, I ordered some music from scope ( UK) , global amount round 100 euros. In Belgium, since july 21, one has to pay VAT for any purchase out of CE area. ( VAT 21% in Belgium ), . (Before 1 July 2021, one had to pay VAT only for value greater than 22 euro). Most of music sellers declared the goodies values < 22. A few days after ,I i got the bill from FEDEX with an extra fee of about 25 euros Thanx to the brexit , purchasing music from UK has become unpayable... same for ordering from Greg

Edited by omphaloskepsis - February 12 2022 at 14:53

Nice vinyl collection catcher. I miss cranking the volume up as I’m condo’d. Don’t even have my main system active. The Focals are nice. As I said very expensive. Definitely bit the dollar with purchase. Im looking at a couple different headphone amps. Miss the old receivers from the late 70’s that shared the main amp with the headphones. The preamp was fully functional as to be able to use bass and treble. A different era. I’m looking at tube amps now. The Woo Audio’s are nice. Maybe the WA22. Sorry to hear of the astronomical taxes. Sean, I’ll ask Greg to look in his spam box for you and anyone else having problems when I send him my order.

Edited by PaulG - January 29 2022 at 09:01

^ I hear ya, shipping costs for me to buy from the UK (Kscope, Burning Shed, band sites...) has become unsustainable. Has nothing to do with a political being.......Logistics costs have gone thru the roof this past year.

A couple of months ago, I ordered some music from scope ( UK) , global amount round 100 euros. In Belgium, since july 21, one has to pay VAT for any purchase out of CE area. ( VAT 21% in Belgium ), . (Before 1 July 2021, one had to pay VAT only for value greater than 22 euro). Most of music sellers declared the goodies values < 22.
A few days after ,I i got the bill from FEDEX with an extra fee of about 25 euros
Thanx to the brexit , purchasing music from UK has become unpayable... same for ordering from Greg

PaulG wrote: What kind of turntable did you buy catcher. I’m spent a ton on the headphones and though they sound great I need a dedicated headphone amp all the more. When I was a kid my pioneer had a headphone system that shared the preamp and main amp of the receiver. I had wonderful power and bass and treble control. Although electronics have come a long way some things like integrated receivers are not comparable to the good old days. I never dreamed a good set of headphones, closed back would cost so much. The tube headphone amp I’m considering will have me penny less for audio equipment for the rest of the year.

Edited by Catcher10 - January 27 2022 at 18:49