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To all that worked in audio salons.

What albums or CDs did you have on hand to demo equipment? Was it popular music or some obscure recordings that were well engineered. Im trying to find a pattern here. In the 70's I saw a lot of Dire Straits, Rikki Lee Jones and Al Dimiola on hand at dealerships. Was there any recordings that would be the one that helped sell the equipment? An old faithful or reliable.
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roundmoundofsound
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Sheffield direct to discs, Fresh Aire, Pink Floyd, any MFSL, and any
Nautilus release were used on a daily basis in the 1970's and early 1980's
where I worked.
timrhu
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Never worked in one but I remember sales guys always pulling out Audio Alchemy, whoever the hell that is. I would ask, "got any real music?"
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sfar
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At one point when I was spending a lot of time auditioning speakers it seemed as if every store I went into pulled out Jennifer Warnes' "The Hunter" and played "Somewhere, Somebody." That happened six or seven times.

At some point later, after settling on speakers, I burned a demo CD with which to torture my friends and it started with "Somewhere, Somebody."
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