Is Jim Smith's Book"Get Better Sound"Best Book ?


Recently, I sent for a copy of Jim Smith's book " Get Better Sound" @48.50 delivered. Since I started reading Jim's viewpoint I have made significant improvements to my listening room. What about you ? For those that have read the book , please express your viewpoint pro or con.
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Showing 1 response by hatehifi

Some may think I'm off-the-wall (maybe right!) but I approached Jim two-weeks after reading his book for a refund. He wrote back that this would be fine and gave me a return number, like #00002 and I thought, "what the heck!" I've poured so much, relatively speaking - I was a single parent for many years, into my hobby of 'listening to music' (trying to avoid buying the components to better do so with), that these forty buckeroos was money well-spent (his complimentary on-line 'Quarterly' is IMO worth the investment, if you so will, as life-time membership fee). And I didn't want to go down in history as the one minnow swimming against the swarm - or something like that.

Jim's respective correspondence alone was well worth the investment (in this, IMO, ever more so rude and callous society), i.e., just for the consideration he gives.

As far as the contents of his book is concerned, and I am confident that I am not alone with this,

"had I had this handbook forty-five years ago I could and would have saved a considerable (by any man's estimate) amount of money, time and frustration."

Most of the contents happened to have come to me by trial, reading and correspondence, via friends or just plain luck, but again, I really would have profited (financially and emotionally) having had his "wise demeanor and helping hand" at the beginning of my trials rather than toward the end. Highly recommended!