Stores We Love: Turntable Lab (New York)

Peter Hahn, Owner and Founder of Turntable Lab in New York City, joins eCoustics for 10 questions.

If you shop for records, DJ equipment, HiFi equipment, or turntable accessories online, you’ve probably spent some time on the Turntable Lab website. After more than 20 years, the online retailer has a global customer base who love their selection of products, and value their expertise and customer service. As a customer, I’ve always been drawn to their music section that offers records you don’t often see for sale on sites like Music Direct or Acoustic Sounds.

Founder Peter Hahn is a very busy guy and constantly looking for new products for Turntable Lab’s rather extensive global customer base. He’s not afraid to take a flyer on some products that are TTL-branded concepts and many of them have proven to be very successful.

Below, Hahn explains how the company started and offers up some thoughts on the future of vinyl.

How did you get started and why?

I was a working DJ in college (NYU, 90s) and kept having to buy mixers, Stanton styluses and replacement parts down on Canal Street. Coming armed with price research and entering into intense haggling, I still ended up paying over the MSRP.

After a while, I was the go-to help for other DJs who wanted to buy gear down there. I thought there had to be a better way to buy gear, so two of my college friends and I launched turntablelab.com in my college apartment. We were one of the first DJ stores online and rode the early boom in turntablism (eg. Invisibl Skratch Piklz, X-ecutioners, DMC Battles).

This article originally appeared at ecoustics.com and an intro has been published here with permission.

Read the full article: https://www.ecoustics.com/articles/turntable-lab-10-questions/