On the upper east side of Manhattan, known as the "Silk Stocking District", is a Hi-Fi store whose list of clients includes Cat Stevens, Marvin Hamlish, Isaac Stern and many other musical greats of the last thirty years. Under the direction of Michael Kakadelis, or Mike Kay as he is better known, Lyric Hi Fi has remained the world focus for the absolute best in audio equipment and a meeting place for musicians and music lovers alike who find their pleasure in the phenomenon called 'High End Audio'.

High End is as the name suggests, the extreme top end of the Hi Fi market; a 'designer range' of audio components which have been developed over the years by designers working independently from outside the commercial industry. What excites High End designers is the challenge of combining research into things electrical with a refined understanding of the art of music, its harmonic structure, inflections and ultimately its performance. The individual components, the speakers, turntables, amplifiers and even cables are designed to recreate sound flawlessly and often, by the nature of the challenge, the product design is allowed to continue to its ultimate potential without financial constraints. When the components are assembled, they are expertly tuned so that they themselves harmonise, enabling the listener to hear the delicate nuances of music in an almost lifelike manner, as though an orchestra is playing before you in your own 'listening environment'.