To both of my clients, Stephen and Dave, thank you both so much for the kind words!
The reason I started writing on these boards was to spread some of the knowledge that comes from doing this as a profession for over 30 years.
The other reason was to counter some of the stupid advice that flows so freely by people who don’t have the wealth of experience that comes from doing this day in and day out, as well as garnered from going to shows and continuing to test new products, not to mention having a store filled with many of the top brands in the industry which becomes our testing lab.
Far too many recommendatins are not based on testing or understanding what the client is trying to accomplish.
For this reason my shop continues to bring in and test new products in order to always find the best sounding products rather than just selling what we have always been selling.
When we tested power conditioners we went through many of the well known brands, we even tested a very popular expensive conditioner that Mike Fremmer was raving about long story short it made the system sound noticably worse than the other line of conditioners we were working with. The point of that example is to show that just because a magazine raves over a product you still need to bring it in to your shop and see for yourself if that is true as well as learning the characteristics of that product.
One of the greatest joys has been meeting and working with people who undestand what my shop and advice is all about, yes it is nice to sell gear and to make new audio aquantances and new friends, but the other satisfaction is seeing a system go from sounding anywhere from aweful or non statisfying to making real music in someone’s home.
Thank you both.
Sincerely,
Dave Lalin, owner, Audio Doctor NJ
The reason I started writing on these boards was to spread some of the knowledge that comes from doing this as a profession for over 30 years.
The other reason was to counter some of the stupid advice that flows so freely by people who don’t have the wealth of experience that comes from doing this day in and day out, as well as garnered from going to shows and continuing to test new products, not to mention having a store filled with many of the top brands in the industry which becomes our testing lab.
Far too many recommendatins are not based on testing or understanding what the client is trying to accomplish.
For this reason my shop continues to bring in and test new products in order to always find the best sounding products rather than just selling what we have always been selling.
When we tested power conditioners we went through many of the well known brands, we even tested a very popular expensive conditioner that Mike Fremmer was raving about long story short it made the system sound noticably worse than the other line of conditioners we were working with. The point of that example is to show that just because a magazine raves over a product you still need to bring it in to your shop and see for yourself if that is true as well as learning the characteristics of that product.
One of the greatest joys has been meeting and working with people who undestand what my shop and advice is all about, yes it is nice to sell gear and to make new audio aquantances and new friends, but the other satisfaction is seeing a system go from sounding anywhere from aweful or non statisfying to making real music in someone’s home.
Thank you both.
Sincerely,
Dave Lalin, owner, Audio Doctor NJ
