Dealers and exaggerated treble

In a lot of those cases, the treble was exaggerated, or harsh to me.

ALL of the dealer demos i had recently sounded bad. VERY bad. The problem is dealers dont seem to realise how bad the sound is. They dont seem to know the difference between good and bad sound. I would say a not insignificant number of audiophiles are exactly the same which is why we dont hear many complaints like this.

What speakers were you listening to?

Many of the dealers i went to were selling some of the most expensive speakers on the planet. 

hooking the speakers up out of phase not to mention spewing out
all kinds of BS.

Please explain to me what this is about?

I recently went to an ultra high end store for a demo. It was by apointment so everything had been set up prior to my arrival by the store manager. In other words he must have surely sat down and checked the sound even if briefly. 
When i arrived, i immediately heard and pointed out that the speakers were wired out of phase.
He then corrected the mistake. I was shocked at how this could have happened. 

Either deliberate, or a mistake. Either way its deplorable. 

yes deplorable to set up a pair of high end speakers without listening to them and positioning them and noticing that theyre out of phase. The guy didnt even notice until I told him. Either that or it was deliberate

The issue as I found out several weeks later, was the extended break in period for these speakers which have a beryllium tweets

you sure it wasn't the mains cable? That can make the sound pretty bright. 

@testpilot  I am talking about one channel being out of phase with the other.  

Perhaps one of the upstream components inverted phase.  

does not matter where the phase was inverted. It should be immediately obvious unless you have bad hearing or it was deliberate.