Richer Sounds Ireland


Meet The Team

This corner shows you the ugly mugs who work in the Belfast shop and in the mail order section - all the guys have different skill sets and their own Customers who treat them as their personal slaves / information portals - why read a manual?? NO WAY! Just call Dave Mc or Matt, our resident geeks instead - life's too short for manuals! PS why can we not get girls to work with us??? :-{

Kenny
Kenny - Has been with us for 8 years and is our Belfast store manager. He looks after the shop, customers and he makes sure the shop runs smoothly and all your nice products are in stock. Kenny started with us as a Runner when he left college and has worked his way through the Ranks here at Richer Belfast. You'll sometimes find him at the end of the phone too. Kenny has a nice black modified fast car and likes his "metal", loves his far away holidays and is a Monitor Audio fan!

Dave
Mail Order Manager, Geek and font of all knowledge. We nicked Dave from an IT background and he has now been with us for 14 years. Dave has worked on the shop floor, in mail order, in IT, and on Multi Room, so you may see him in the shop or he may just be hiding in his IT fortress ! If you have a query on multi-room systems, he's your man. Dave listens to mainly metal tunes and is a part-time drummer. Please don't mention to him that you know he drives an Avensis or you don't stand a chance of getting that discount you were looking for! (he used to have a Kawasaki 125 so I guess it's an improvement). But honestly - font of all knowledge Dave is our longest serving employee......we just can't get shot of him ! :-)

John A
John is one of our newest additions to the Richer Sounds crew. He has been around the industry for over 20 years and has a wealth of product knowledge and experience. He currently drives a very shiny and well kept Alfa which would certainly beat Dave's Avensis in a race ! He's rather keen on motorcycles too and has had a few nices ones over the years. John has a lovely 5.1 system at home and is a huge plasma TV fan.

Stephen
Stephen started with us at the same time as John did and he too has been around the electrical industry for quite a few years. He's been in Harvey Norman, Laser, shop electric amongst others. He's well experienced and knows what good customer service is. He loves his country music and adds a new musical dimension to the dance and metal fans that we currently employ.

Chris
Chris is has been with us for 2 years now. He's got such a varied love of music, some of which would surprise you. Chris works on the ShopFloor but he also helps out with the Mail Order side of things here in Belfast. So if you call and Dave is not around then Chris is your man to get the Parcels delivered.

Ciaran
Ciaran has now worked here 2 years as part of our Sales Team. He came to us from Bose, so has been in this game for a number of years. As well as being a part of the Sales team he also looks after customer repairs, if any gremlins get into your equipment then he will take it under his wing and have it brought back to life!

3^Bi-wired^A speaker with seperate terminals to connect it's woofer and tweeter to the amplifier.^|43^Analogue^A signal that is as exact replica of the original sounds waveform. An example of an analogue device is a cassette deck.^|44^Impedance^The resistance, measured in Ohms, offered to AC (alternating current) signals by a component. In loudspeaker specifications 8 Ohms is the norm, 6 Ohms is becoming more popular, but be careful with low-impedance 4 Ohm speakers because not all power amplifiers are happy driving them.^|45^RDS^Radio Data System - This is fitted to some tuners and car radios (where it's genuinely useful ) and supplies some additional information and controls signals to the tuner^|46^Sensitivity^When quoted in loudspeaker specifications, this tells you how easy a job the amplifier have driving the speaker. Measured in dB (decibels), 88dB is average, 84dB is low (so get a big amp!), and 90dB or above is very high (so a little amp will do).^|47^Tweeter^A loudspeaker's high frequency drive unit. Produces most of the treble.^|48^Watts^Used to specify amplifier or loudspeaker power handling.^|49^Woofer^A loudspeaker's low frequency drive unit.^|50^Amplifier^Hi-fi component (or any electrical circuit) that boosts signals. An amplifier is required to connect a cd player to speakers...and so on.^|51^Multiregion^This term means that the unit is capable of playing discs from anywhere in the world. The world is split into 6 regions. DVD players and discs sold within Europe are region 2. America is region 1 and so on.^|52^Multi-region^This term means that the unit is capable of playing discs from anywhere in the world. The world is split into 6 regions. DVD players and discs sold within Europe are region 2. America is region 1 and so on.^|92^WMA 9 Pro^The first digital surround sound coding technology for the Web, developed by Microsoft. When connected to a multi-channel-equipped PC, you are able to enjoy high resolution stereo or 5.1-channel surround audio at 128 k - 768 Kbps compression rates. At any given bit rate, 5-channel WMA9 Pro will bring you higher fidelity than other sound compression algorithms thanks to the latest audio codec technology.^|93^WMA 9 Pro^The first digital surround sound coding technology for the Web, developed by Microsoft. When connected to a multi-channel-equipped PC, you are able to enjoy high resolution stereo or 5.1-channel surround audio at 128 k - 768 Kbps compression rates. At any given bit rate, 5-channel WMA9 Pro will bring you higher fidelity than other sound compression algorithms thanks to the latest audio codec technology.^|94^HDMI switching^An excellent feature that allows multiple HDMI devices to be connected through and amp and then 1 HDMI output to be connected to the TV. This will allow anyone who has a single HDMI connection on the TV, to connect several via the amp. The number of devices varies between models.^|96^PRFC^Test^|108^DTS-HD^High definition Audio sound track on an bluray disk that is designed by DTS and probably the best sound track available.^|