Sound Leisure
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Sound Leisure is a jukebox manufacturer based in Leeds, UK.
Originally formed by Alan Black and Edward Moss in 1978, Sound Leisure specializes in hand-made jukeboxes, both digital and classic reproductions. The company is family owned and run, and is considers itself the oldest "self-owned" jukebox company in the world.
Classic jukeboxes
They produce classic jukeboxes in the style of companies such as Wurlitzer, Rowe-Ami and Seeburg. They remain the only company in the world to produce a "one-piece" wooden cabinet reflecting the original construction methods.
Their reproductions originally used vinyl changing machines, which the company still refurbishes in its Leeds-based factory. However at the start of the 1980s Sound Leisure produced the ‘21st Century’ 80 disc CD changing mechanism.
Digital jukeboxes
Sound Leisure claims to be the first company to create and patent a digital jukebox. In 1988 the company demonstrated the world's first commercial digital jukebox. The product, named Nimbus, was initially demonstrated to a group of senior trade executives and press at the Cedar Court Hotel in Wakefield and then to an audience at the Novotel previews at Hammersmith in October 1988. The Nimbus was arguably the catalyst for digital jukeboxes as we know them today.