@nashvillehifi ...The comment by @tunehead reminded me that there’s a local start-up in a b&m building that’s trying something different that you might find more fun, yet keep on the pulse of audiophilia....
( Aims to offer music oriented entertainment touting ’vintage Klipsch speakers’ and a turntable in house with plans to hold BYOLPs’ nights, serving wines, local brews, non-alcohol drinkage, snacks and nibbles.... )
There’s a plethora of mini-venues here in AVL in bars mostly frequented by the young and hip types who either tolerate or amused by the gray aged sorts that dare their doors....;) A few small studios about, and even a LP. pressing plant downtown-ish attending to a lively music scene of genres’ and blends you’d never considered an audience for.....
Perhaps a treated space with tables, chairs, couches....dimmable lighting...house gear @ hand (yours), but visible, sporting some ’reasonable $ SOTA’ (SS and tube) to intro those unfamiliar with the latter....
A second space for your call on some new stuff, but offering to do some consignment sales...obviously showing that which you think has legs to leave eventually without filling the dumpster....
Offer consultation on the various methods and means to take Your Sound home with them after your in-house system intros the newbies as to what that new LP of theirs can really play like....and How.
’Philes are cultivated. Breeding results are spotty at best,,,
Grow your own batch of clients...
Good luck 👍🤞😎 J
(Have an LP cleaning device under the counter if the disc looks like it's been bathed in beer before brought....)
