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Who is the WORST Audio Shop?

There seems to have been quite a bit written over the past several years regarding the myriad of reasons one can attribute to the demise of the brick and mortar audio shop. Rarely have I read however one of the most obvious reasons, which based on my experience, has got to be the simple fact that for the most part, they just didn't offer a high end listening experience. That, along with an elitist and careless attitude towards customer service, buried them as much as anything else. So here's my question. Who is the WORST audio shop/dealer you've ever encountered?
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schubert
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I’d make an exception to that. I was a grad student in Madison for 3 years.
Mad-town is so dominated by UW and state government , most of whose workers are ex-Badgers who couldn’t bring themselves to leave, that it’s a great town for kids and a very bad place for adults .Even the "adults"are mostly kids !
 Though St. Paul is the capitol and the U of MN is bigger than UW, the
Twin Cities are big enough to be good for all ages and all kinds . BIG difference .
schubert
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I’ve don’t think I’ve missed any big American City , I’m from Upstate NY and have no reason to live here other than its the most civilized of all big American Cities .
And has the best Medical care in USA , esp. for the young and the old.
VA Hospital here is best in the system because docs want to live here
and Mayo clinic is just down the road if you need world class brain cutter etc . State has agreement with Mayo
that Medicare payment is all any MN resident ever pays .
schubert
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A lot of truth in that randy, many in the Twin Cities were born in northern 
MN, hard upon the Manitoba and Ontario borders .
Also, Twin Cities are the bright lights, big city for many Canadians .
Smarter kids from here tend to attend college in Canada because the price is right , but remain  there because Canada is right for them .
schubert
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New Yorkers are rude, so are Berliners , both are also more friendly than most .
Having lived in both MN and WI , Minnesotans are FAR more polite than 
Wisconsinites . Twin Cities metro is 4 million people, more friendly than any other big city I've ever been in which is many .
schubert
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No you can't they are not .
In Twin Cities stores are "Minnesota Nice" , that's why I live there .
schubert
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Back  in 70's I was selling Audio for a big dealer.
Scruffy looking old guy walked in, walked like he was drunk .
Nobody seemed to want to wait on him, I did and in 10 minutes I made a 5K
sale(like 25K today) to the owner of a  truck line who filled in for
a sick guy and had just driven 800 miles non-stop and was 50 miles from home .
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