How many times can u visit a hifi store before it annoys the store if u plan on a purchase


I plan on buying a McIntosh system C12000 and 2 MC611 monoblocks in a about 3 months from this Stereo shop I have chosen. I’ve been to the store about 4 times over the past year and half to listen to various components trying diff equipment.

My question, is, what would be considered visiting the store to much before I buy a system? I plan on spending over 20k but I didn’t know what is proper etiquette.

dman777

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We only have one high end store here and I go there about once a year to listen to a couple of their rooms, but for some reason they just don’t sound good to me.  I mean an all Boulder system with the top of the line Transparent cables, a couple of different speakers and it just sounds okay.  I’m pretty sure it’s the room(s), yet  these guys have been in business for years. They probably know who I am by now, but I don’t care. I went in to ask about DAC’s and one of the owners pulled out something, said it cost $67K and I just chucked. I never asked the brand name, nor did I ask him to demo it.