BEHOLD - digital gear from Germany

This seems to be the right time to chime in. My company, Laufer Teknik, recently became the US Distributor for Behold (their first distributor in the United States)(my personal feedback is available under my personal moniker which is “slaufer.”) We anticipate establishing a dealer network in the United States and Canada in 2007 (we have no dealers at present and, to my knowledge, I know no one in this thread). In the meantime, we have established a dedicated listening environment in Brooklyn, New York where you can audition, by appointment, the full line of Behold equipment including our new room correction system and digital crossover which are available as a module which may be included as one of fourteen optional modules in our preamplifier (called the “APU” or “Audio Processing Unit”)(see www.behold-usa.com). The Behold gear is being shown with the complete range of Ascendo loudspeakers including the System M, which was recently reviewed by Jonathan Valin in the Absolute Sound. Laufer Teknik became the new US Distributor for Ascendo a few weeks ago (we will be issuing a press release shortly). The Behold products are expensive; however, the design, technology, and build quality are, in our opinion, without peer. We welcome your taking the time to listen to these superlative products. Our showroom is located in a lovely brownstone from the mid 1800s in the heart of Brooklyn Heights, just a quick drive or a single subway stop outside of Manhattan.

Happy listening,

Sam Laufer

Since when did the environment become so hostile at Audiogon? I've never used Audiogon to actively plug our products. And if did, what would be the problem with that. Don't companies need to sell their products to survive? Bigjob's thread asked whether anyone had heard Behold's products. The fact is that no one in the United States owns any Behold product as we have just entered the market here. Since this was the first thread ever mentioning Behold, I thought it was an appropriate time to introduce myself. Opportunistic, transparent? Call it what you may, but my post was merely intended make people aware that the system is available to listen to. I had thought Audiogon was a community for like-minded enthusiasts to share experiences and information not a place for vitriol and vilification. Commercial members of this site are largely made up of enthusiasts as well who got into the business because of their love this hobby. People who are new to this hobby are going to read threads like this and not want to participate in what should be an embracing welcoming dialog for fear of being thrashed. That's a shame.

Thanks for your input Eldarado. You may be right. At 12:30am we often jump before thinking too much. For whatever it's worth, I have no idea who Bigjob or anyone else on this thread is. From now on I'll keep my distance from posting on this forum. Thanks.

Sam