When Jim Otto opened Sound Spectrum in 1967, it wasn't just to sell vinyl–he wanted to turn people onto the best music in the world. '67 was the year of the Monterey Pop Festival, a three-day event ...

For weeks, Edith Otto has been reliving memories from the years she and her husband, Jimmy, owned Laguna Beach’s iconic Sound Spectrum, a record store generations have browsed looking for classics and ...

Wave Baker, a longtime employee of Sound Spectrum, will tell anyone who listens that the place has “an energy of its own.” So when the Laguna Beach-based record shop, which opened on South Coast ...