Someone had mentioned Christopher Hansen on a thread I read the other day

Love Lyric spent 20k there they always treated me wonderful!!

Guys,

I worked at Christopher Hansen Ltd. from 1993 until its closure in 1994 when I left to go work for Mark Levinson at Cello.

The famous Christopher Hansen Ltd. was located on Robertson Boulevard in the design section of West Hollywood. It was a crowded store with all of the best, high end gear. 

In the early 1990s, Chris got investors from Indonesia to help him convert the old Rolls Royce building (the new one was and is across the street) into what was one of the most fancy audio and home theater salons ever. It quickly went out of business. Audiophiles wanted that messy, cluttered look as it was more approachable. 

Chris went on to a successful business in the custom installation world including owning part of Simply Home Entertainment up until last year. 

I am not sure any one retail store sold more of the highest of high end products that CH. I was one of the top Wilson sales people in the world while I was there and that was in a recession. We were also hard hit by the 1994 "Northridge Earthquake" which Chris, his then wife and myself were in Scottsdale for. We come home to one hell of a mess. 9-inch CRT projectors launched off their mounts, THIEL CS5 speakers broken into pieces. It was ugly.

Both Christopher Hansen and taters are MIA.

This thread brought back the image of that imposing wooden door. Aside from that, nice at first and then rather snooty.

All the best
Nonoise

Wow!!

Old thread but that store ended up costing me bazillions of dollars over the last 30 years, During the early 90's I would travel to the LA area on business, and visited that store each time I could.  The 2nd (and last) time I visited I wandered into the rear of the store and was blown away by my fist true home theater experience.  Sony 1271 CRT projector; Frox Processor; Snell THX speakers. I was bitten - went home (Atlanta) and replicated that room - and it hasn't stopped !!

I didn't know, until I read the above, what happened to that business.