JB Hi-Fi

Hey. It’s a JB! It’s all good.
This one is a little hole in the ground from the Queen Street Mall, although not actually on Queen Street.
There’s two other JBs in the city I can think of. None of the stores are massive, but they all have a good range of products. This one is usually quite busy. To be honest I’d probably rather hit some of the suburban ones. Bigger and less crowded, but this is handy when you’re in town. I’d say this is the handiest location of all the CBD JBs.

This JB is pretty well in line with the many others across the nation. The store layout is simple, it doesn’t take long to find most of what you’re looking for.
I’m mostly about CDs, and like most JB’s, I often can’t find the cd I’m looking for but always end up buying a few more than I intended. I guess this is a success on their part.
The staff are super friendly and helpful. Definitely not the worst place to buy music, movies and the like.

This branch of discount A/​V franchise calls themselves the ‘Headphones Experts’ and inside you’ll find a series of listening stations with a consensus-​designed mix of music playing through headphones from brands like Sennheiser, Sony, Pioneer and TDK, justfor your sampling pleasure (don’t worry if you don’t dig ‘California Loving’ or the awful pop track at the beginning of the mix; it gets better for mine at the end with ‘Last Night’ by The Strokes and some Tool).
They also sell sow of the mid range DSLRs by Canon and Nikon, like the Canon 550D ($ 793) and 600D ($ 893), as well as the Nikon D7000 ($ 1793). A cabinet full of lenses also provides a good range of options for the avid DSLR fan, and the prices here are cheaper than other camera stores, though as with most things these days, you’ll get a cheaper price online.
I recently checked them out to see if I coud get a cool new case for my 13″ MacBook Pro. At first it was difficult to find where the sized cases I was after were located, and there wasn’t a staff member free for me to ask. After a bit of a search I found that they were secreted behind the 11″ MacBook Air cases (is my computer becoming redundant already?). I was pretty underwhelmed with the range available. The cheapest cases were about $ 40 and pretty ugly. The few that I liked slightly were around the $ 80 mark, and not that impressive that I’d part with that much. Maybe I’ll find one online…

This has long since been somewhere I’ve always gone to for my cds, dvds and only recently bluray discs. They prices are right, usually the bargain bins have lots of great collections, box sets and also headphones.
They also have a great range of accessories for your ipod, ipad, everything i something these days. Mobile phones, audio visual devices, GPS systems and also, tripods for your soon to be film makers… they rotate even!
The guys who work here, are really good in pointing you in the right direction when you don’t know what to look for where to get it or who the singer is. Like me.