As experienced, knowledgeable and dedicated High End Audio experts we can help you set up the perfect high end audio systems for your budget. With our tutorials, demonstration and reviews we help the novice buy the right high end home audio speakers and right high end audio system for your home. We separate hype from reality when it comes to which high end audio preamplifier, high end audio amplifier, high end audio cables, high end audio speakers, high end audio equipment, high end audio equipment racks and high end audio cables are needed to give you the system that perfectly matches your sonic preferences. We also have a small inventory of quality used high end audio equipment. Call us now for information on any and all products we carry.

We recommend and sell only what we use and enjoy -- wonderful products like Grado Labs headphones, Koetsu, Benz-Micro and Transfiguration phono cartridges; Nottingham, Clearaudio, and Pro-Ject turntables; tube electronics by Aesthetix and Rogue Audio, and solid state electronics by Simaudio, Quad and Cambridge Audio; cables by Audience and Tara labs.  We offer dynamic speakers from Focal/JMLab, and Transmission Audio, and both electrostatic panels and dynamic speakers from Quad.

At Sound Mind Audio we are a "music first" business, believing that music enhances our lives through the spiritual and emotional benefits we derive from enjoying it.  We do not sell "status symbols" designed to enhance one's self-image.  There are expensive products and there are high-price-point products.  We trust that after you have spent time with us you will understand the distinction!  

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Written by Brian Kurtz   
My first 4 1/2 years was in a home, then 5 1/2 in a storefront, now back to a home again.  WHY?  Part financial, mostly spiritual/emotional/psychological....I really hated pushing myself so hard to generate cash every month just to get by, all the while trying to be the service-based guy I'd always been....too much to do, too little time...

CALL ME on my cell number, which is 512-922-6043.  AT&T has screwed me over again and I have had enough; disconnecting my number and just living from my cell phone!  I would like to be more calm than this, and I won't give you the story.  Just call me on my cell. Thanks!

A lot has changed  since I moved out of the storefront in May '08.  I was nudged into becoming a licenced Realtor, working with Lee Properties.  Lately I'm back doing the SMA thing full- to part-time, and working as the worldwide sales director for JENA Labs cable, line conditioning, and other products full time now!

Sound Mind Audio is always there for those of you who need the love and attention you know I'll give you and your music system, and I'll always appreciate your patronage!  THANKS VERY MUCH to my core 150 clients or so are still there for me!  Want to be on that now-very-short list?  Let me know that you're more serious about music than cool toys, and that you can afford $500 or so per transaction (less than that and I'm losing money, given the time I spend with each and every one of you!), and we'll be together for the rest of our lives!



Back to the newest place...northside off Braker Lane between Burnet and Lamar.  Back to featuring Air Tight tube gear (Aesthetix and Rogue Audio will be back someday!), CD is the 840C by Cambridge Audio; turntable by Nottingham;cartridges by Koetsu and Transfiguration (Benz coming back someday!); Quad 2805s and 909 amplifier, and a pair of ProAc tritowers for speakers...Cables?  Teo Audio's Liquid Cables almost everywhere...Audience AU24 between my Air Tight step-up transformer and phono stage.  For now line conditioning is simple...Audience AR1 into a basic but VERY high quality 8-outlet strip by The Cable Pro, Ted Paisley, from Dallas.  Walker Audio and TAG Audio cones are around, and someday Lloyd Walker's Velocitor line conditioner will be back, too! Salamander cabinet; the rest is limited-order-as-needed.  PLEASE give me a call! I'll order whatever you need, deliver it for free (within a reasonable distance), set it up and dial it in to your system, and do all I can to earn and keep your business!

We're appointment-only again, so we can't handle drop-ins but, as before, if you call and I'm available, LET'S DO IT!  I'll always do what I can to accommodate you!  I'm available 8am until 10pm Monday through Saturday....Sorry, but Sundays are for that Day of Rest with my sons!

Give me a call, and let's hook up!  512-377-2834....

See you soon!