Stereophile•2025-02-19

Serious Fun at Big Kids Toys

Home is Where the Hi-Fi is

In the March 2025 installment of Stereophile’s excellent “Re-Tales” column, author Julie Mullins highlights Big Kids Toys — an AudioQuestMythical Experience dealer — and speaks with its 29-year-old sales manager Luke Sumerford about what it takes to make hi-fi fun again. 

Founded in 2002, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Big Kids Toys recently opened a second showroom in Covington, Kentucky. Mullins explains that both locations are home-based operations — a sales strategy that offers both practical and personal advantages.

“Big Kids Toys customers get a true in-home listening experience in a domestic setting,” Mullins writes. “Such dealerships are almost always appointment-only, which makes it easier to focus completely on one customer at a time and to play whatever music they want to hear.”  

That last bit is especially important to Luke, who believes music is an essential ingredient in building strong and meaningful relationships. At Big Kids Toys, chances are you’ll hear the latest album from Maggie Rogers, A$AP Rocky, or The Weeknd as well as all the requisite audiophile standards.  

“In the end,” Mullins writes, “hi-fi is — or should be — about having fun. Toys, but for big kids.”  

We couldn’t agree more.