About the Team
Connor Ramsbottom B.A., M.A.: Managing Director
Connor’s relationship with music is one that spans his entire life. Born into a family of musicians and instrument technicians, it was almost inevitable that he ended up involved in a musical pursuit. Passionate about music, history, and antiques, the world of vintage HiFi naturally attracted him.
First becoming involved with the Turntable Shop under Nick Seiflow in 2015, he began as a plinth manufacturer and rapidly worked his way into a position of head technician, digital media manager, and assistant manager. Moving between full- and part-time positions as he completed his degrees, he received constant training from Seiflow in the arts of restoration and repair of vintage audio equipment.
Connor took on the Shop after the passing of Seiflow in early 2023, eager to continue it in his own model while preserving the heart of what Seiflow began: to bring the gift of music to as many people as possible.
An inimitable man who truely loved music
In Memoriam: Nick Seiflow
Nick was a man who embodied the idea of ‘living many lives’. A musician, businessman, microbiologist, technician, photographer, pianist, philosopher, historian; a list seemingly inexhaustible. He was a man who was best experienced subjectively, leaving everyone with a different impression of the person they just met yet united by the realization that they met someone truly unique.
Born of the Old Country, Seiflow’s story is difficult to piece together. Coming to Canada in the early 1970s, he made his way in the Toronto area as a pianist and keyboard player, playing with local rock groups to classical recitals. In Vancouver, he was best known as a skilled photographer, doing headshots for the likes of Ryan Reynolds, and operator of the Vancouver Telescope Shop before founding The Turntable Shop with two partners.
A man capable of conversing about anything with practically endless knowledge on any subject, Nick naturally attracted people to the Shop to observe the spectacle of his character. He left us in April of 2023 as nebulously as he came; no one is sure of the cause of his demise yet we can be absolutely sure of the legacy he left behind.
He is survived by his siblings in both the United States and England, by the Shop, and by all of those whose lives’ trajectories he profoundly affected. Words cannot do justice to the impact Nick had on people. For all those who knew him, and for those who never got the chance to meet him, his loss was felt extremely deeply.
He will be forever missed by innumerable people, yet he lives on in our collective memory as a man we all looked forward to seeing down at The Turntable Shop.