Dealer disclaimer:
After reading most of you guys posts, I thought to myself what a bunch of cynical, bull.
I have worked in the NYC market for 17 years, before opening my own shop, and I worked for two of the biggest high end audio dealers in the city, and over the years there were many excellent salesman and many happy and satisfied customers.
As with purchasing anything there are good dealerships and salespeople and bad dealers and bad salesman.
A good dealer is one that is trying to do right by their clients and put together a magical system for the client no matter what the price point is.
A bad dealer is one who sells their overstock stuff or pushes equipment that is in stock to the wrong client and is serving themselves.
A good dealer will have a wide selection of equipment and will spend the time to educate a prospective client and provide expert setup and installation services.
Yes it is true that only the client will know what sounds good to them but without having the ability to be educated
and experience the difference that changing electronics, or a digital source or cabling will make a neophyte can find the entire process extremely challenging to nearly impossible and that is what a good dealer is all about.
If this gentleman has a good local dealer or dealers then he should bring some music and start demoing and maybe he will put together a great system and become a happy audiophile instead of someone who can't stop upgrading because their systems that they put together themselves sound dreadful.
After reading most of you guys posts, I thought to myself what a bunch of cynical, bull.
I have worked in the NYC market for 17 years, before opening my own shop, and I worked for two of the biggest high end audio dealers in the city, and over the years there were many excellent salesman and many happy and satisfied customers.
As with purchasing anything there are good dealerships and salespeople and bad dealers and bad salesman.
A good dealer is one that is trying to do right by their clients and put together a magical system for the client no matter what the price point is.
A bad dealer is one who sells their overstock stuff or pushes equipment that is in stock to the wrong client and is serving themselves.
A good dealer will have a wide selection of equipment and will spend the time to educate a prospective client and provide expert setup and installation services.
Yes it is true that only the client will know what sounds good to them but without having the ability to be educated
and experience the difference that changing electronics, or a digital source or cabling will make a neophyte can find the entire process extremely challenging to nearly impossible and that is what a good dealer is all about.
If this gentleman has a good local dealer or dealers then he should bring some music and start demoing and maybe he will put together a great system and become a happy audiophile instead of someone who can't stop upgrading because their systems that they put together themselves sound dreadful.