A vinyl shop, a workshop, and a stubborn belief in the long groove

GrooveVault opened in November 2008 as a record shop with a small repair bench in the back. Sixteen years later it is a 220-square-metre house of vinyl and analogue audio in the heart of Exarcheia, with a basement workshop, a showroom of restored vintage hi-fi, and a calendar of

Our Story

GrooveVault opened in November 2008 as a record shop with a small repair bench in the back. Sixteen years later it is a 220-square-metre house of vinyl and analogue audio in the heart of Exarcheia, with a basement workshop, a showroom of restored vintage hi-fi, and a calendar of Wednesday listening sessions that has run uninterrupted for eleven years. We are independent, family-owned, and stubbornly slow. We close on Sundays and Mondays. We never run flash sales on used vinyl. We never grade a record more generously than it deserves. We came to vinyl through engineering, classical music and a stubborn refusal to accept that compressed audio was the future — and we are still here, three turntables later.

Timeline

2008
Shop opens at Themistokleous 64, Exarcheia. First sale: a sealed *Reflections*.
2010
Workshop bench formally installed in the basement. First restoration: a Thorens TD 124.
2014
Wednesday listening sessions begin. First record: Coltrane *A Love Supreme*.
2018
Mimis Korkolis joins as full-time technician. Workshop output triples.
2022
*Lifo* readers vote GrooveVault Best Independent Record Store in Athens.
2024
Becomes the only authorised SME tonearm service partner in Greece.

What We Stand For

Real support

Email replies within one business day, by humans who know the catalog.

Curated catalog

Every product gets a four-week trial in our own team before it reaches the shop.

Direct partnerships

We work with the makers themselves wherever we can — fairer for everyone.

Ready to work with us?

Get in touch and let's talk.