Moorgate Acoustics was founded in 1981 by Keith Hobson with the aim of helping music lovers get better sound at home. Keith was an engineer by trade whose passion for music led to a keen interest in Hi-fi as the best means to appreciate it.

Frustrated by the relatively poor standards of service available in South Yorkshire, Keith’s redundancy from Sound 70’s on Barclay Precinct afforded him the opportunity to put his own ideas into practice and start his own company. His experiences as a customer enabled him to see things from a different standpoint and introduce facilities and services that weren’t available when he was a customer.

Starting from scratch, he chose to stock only those products which offered the best sound. Next, he added listening rooms, where people could actually listen to the equipment of their choice. This seems obvious now but over thirty years ago Moorgate was one of the first shops to offer proper demonstration.