Was my friend given misinformation.

You gave your friend great advice. I find Best Buy a great place to buy stuff that I have researched and decided to buy… for instance my Sennheiser Ambeo sound bar from my bedroom. 24 month financing and a good price.

It is great if your friend likes what he got. If he followed your advice then he would have a better sound ing system. Features are the bread and butter of low fi. High sound quality and few features are the mark of high fi.

Fortunately the BB guy sold him B&W and Denon… it could have been much worse.

You can lead a horse to water….

I feel a bit inclined to defend BB / Magnolia. In general, they have employees that know more than nothing. They are salesman… but people as well… so some are great some good and some not good. They sell low end and mid-fi to mostly people that know little to nothing. It is there job, and not one that pays six digits. So, within that context, they usually do pretty good. I have met some really enthusiastic pretty well informed folks there… although not the most common. I haven’t met too many sales people that were just pushing stuff. If they sell something inappropriate it is more from lack of knowledge.

You want high end, you go to a high end store.