Trip to NYC, What to do

Live music. Start at Carnegie Hall. Then Lincoln Center. Then the better known jazz clubs. Then whatever else.

Lyric audio on Lexington avenue is worth a stop if you must visit a home audio store.

By all means, search out music, especially the Coca Cola Club at Lincoln Center. Now a warning. Don't even think about seeking out a gear shop like Lyric or Singer. It will spoil the trip. But, if you must, bring your bank book showing at least $100K, as it required to be let in. No bank book, then just visit the Stereo Exchange on lower Broadway. Also in that area is a store that has Tannoy's big units, seldom to be heard outside New York City. Have fun.

I went to Singer Sound and they let me listen to the Magico Minis for 30 min and other speakers. While they were a bit stuck up, they did let me audition speakers. Ps. I looked homeless and told them I was not buying anything.
My favorite place to visit is the museums. MOMA is the mecca for art. Seven floors of jaw dropping art. Usually two or three hours is enough for me. The Met is having a very nice Matise exhibit right now.
Time Square at night and daytime is great. I love to walk the streets for miles people watching. Central Park in the spring and the summer should not be missed. Find some good restaurants.

Recent faves: Jim Campilongo at the Living Room every Monday night...brilliant guitar player and NOT an expensive show. Arturo O'Farrill's Latin Jazz Sundays at Birdland...absolutely mind blowing kick ass big band, perhaps the world's best. Look in the NY Times list of stuff, or the New Yorker.

I've been to Lyric twice and both times found the gentleman working there to be friendly and helpful.

Of course, there was nobody else there at the time looking to drop megabucks, so I probably timed it right.

Seriously though, they had a wide range of gear at all price points, including entry level "high end", like NAD, etc.

The shop reminded me of the old Tech Hifi I used to work in, which was an audio mecca at the time back then circa 1978 or so, though the most expensive gear there these days cost way more than anything sold back then, even with inflation factored in I would say. That's progress I suppose......