est. in a back room, 1998

Every
listener
has a face

Grove & Grain is a record shop and an audio apparatus atelier. We press nothing, we hoard everything: idler-drive turntables, triode amps, mono pressings with a scratch that has a name. Come in, sit down, get drawn.

Dig the crate Meet the regulars

Illustrated portrait of Vera, 34, listener of Cosmic Jazz

Now spinning · Second Side Blues

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The wall
of ears

Every regular gets drawn in oil pastel and pinned by the counter. Tap a face — the record on the platter changes.

See all 15 portraits

46 sittings, pencil and coloured line

Full house

Meet the crowd

Small line portrait of Ada, a Grove & Grain visitor

Small line portrait of Bo, a Grove & Grain visitor

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This week's crate

All 312 in the crate

1974 · first press

Undergrowth

Léa Fontaine Ensemble

€148

1981 · Japan promo

Room Tone No. 4

Hiro Amagai

€92

2024 · 180g repress

Grain Studies

The Needle Choir

€38

1968 · mono

Dust & Halo

Marta Kowal

€210

Apparatuswood, glass, copper

Every deck on this list has been opened, cleaned and listened to on our bench before it earned a price tag.

Coloured pencil illustration of a turntable with a spinning record — Bench drawing no. 12

01
Thorens TD 124 — restored
Idler drive · new bearing · walnut plinth cut in our workshop
€3 400
02
Grove Valve Two — house build
8 watts of triode, point-to-point wired, one volume knob and nothing else
€2 150
03
Grain Horn 300 — cabinet
Birch ply, oiled by hand, sensitivity 96 dB, sold as a pair
€4 900
04
Needle Service — bench
Cartridge alignment, azimuth, anti-skate. Coffee included, opinions free
€60

The whole bench

45 minutes, one chair, no phone

The listening room

A padded box behind the shop with the Grove Valve Two, a pair of Grain Horns and a single armchair. Bring a record or let us choose. We draw you while you listen; the portrait goes on the wall if you like it.

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Illustrated portrait of a listener in the Grove & Grain listening room

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Journal

Notes on finds

Attic boxes, bench repairs and quiet hours, written down at the counter between customers.

Commissions

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Sit with your favourite record for forty-five minutes, take the drawing home, and stay on our wall forever.

“A record is a face pressed flat. You put the needle in the eye and it starts talking.”
— house rule, painted above the till

Everylistenerhas a face

The wallof ears