Enough is Enough

Sounds more like a shady used car dealer. Of course he said your system is crap and how convenient he just happens to sell stuff that will make it the best system ever. As others have said, you'd do well to find a different stereo business to deal with.

Dealers will always route you to something they sell. It isn’t even that dishonest, IMHO, call it a grey area. So basicly, you have to pretty much ignore whatever a dealer says. I know some people have dealers they trust. Still those dealers cannot be perfectly objective.

Owners can’t be fully trusted either. they are going to have confirmation bias toward whatever they spent much money on. and they often just repeat what the dealer told them.

Reviewers never give a bad review. they are playing the game.

Best bet is to: 1. understand the technology behind it to figure out what is likely to sound better. 2. listen with your own ears. A physics degee helps with item 1.

OP:  if you're in socal, stop by and listen to my Lampi.  I haven't gotten around to selling DAVE yet so we could do an A/B.

Jerry

@carlsbad2,

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I was a retail owner for many years, now retired.  We offered personal service and hired [and fired] many salespeople over the years.  Some of them, you could tell would thrive at this and others were pretty obvious that this was not their calling.  Sounds like you got one of those.

 ricred1  Forget dealers suggestions , trust your ears. I have Ideon audio DAC now and it is the best dac i ever had . They know how to kill USB hum.