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When suggesting audio components for friends and relatives...

This is a bit of "thinking out loud". I believe I have been lucky as what I have helped friends and relatives with in buying higher end and even simple components has worked out very well.

With some it was a simple system as in a Nakamichi SoundSpace 5 or the like, and with some it was Magnepans, Martin-Logans, Audio Research...and others.

The question is have you had good success kindly helping others? Have there been any regrets or negative situations? About the only slight downside was after selling a former high end system of mine to my best friend, he died from cancer and his wife replaced some of the items with BestBuy "stuff" and I could never understand as to why.


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1) Most non-audiophiles just want background music.
2) Many do not want to see the equipment, or if they do it must be super-cool.
If they’re good friends, you may know their music tastes. Try to get a gander at their music collection.
When I was in the biz, I would 80% sure put them into a B&O system. Don’t know much about them now. It’s a much bigger company now, I think, but they were problem free and great for dinner music and beyond.
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