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Best Record Stores in the world

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1. Slow Boat, Singapore

a table with a record player and a glass door

Second-floor Tanjong Pagar cafe setting individual turntables and headphones beside plush leather couches. Hourly bookings mix espresso and whiskey with quiet listening from a massive wall of playable records.

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2. Sound Metaphors, Berlin

a room with bookshelves and speakers

Kreuzberg record shop and label hub heavily stocked with well-sorted new and used electronic vinyl. Bins of house, techno, and Italo carry detailed staff notes for deep digging before testing tracks at the listening stations.

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3. Pastiche, Berlin

a room with a lot of records on shelves

Specialty coffee shop and curated record store built around a custom hi-fi sound system. By night, the record racks are replaced with tatami mats for immersive listening events.

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4. Black Gold Amsterdam, Amsterdam

a blue record player with a stylus on it

Compact coffee bar and record shop running on local espresso and steady vinyl rotations. The small, cluttered room skips laptops entirely, keeping tables open for chess games and digging through crates of funk and afrobeat.

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5. Common Wave HiFi, Los Angeles

a restaurant with a tree in the middle of the room

High-end audio showroom and record shop operating out of an unassuming downtown warehouse. Dedicated listening sessions run by appointment, pairing top-tier analog gear and vintage vinyl with a casual, communal vibe.

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6. Silence Please, New York City

a room with a table and chairs

Second-floor Bowery loft running as a tea house, record shop, and high-fidelity listening room. Custom speakers play curated vinyl across a minimalist white room of low black leather sofas, open laptops, and matcha.

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7. Tropicália Discos, Rio de Janeiro

a room with a lot of records on a shelf

Discrete second-floor shop in Centro dense with Brazilian vinyl. Owners pull from floor-to-ceiling shelves, often dropping the needle on rare MPB and samba cuts.

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