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| Gamut Lobster Chair Yeah, beautiful chair but, she looks like a chronic backache waiting to happen. | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. I've been a pretty successful sales rep throughout a couple of careers- and I like commission. Wouldn't work for any other kind of pay. The worst thing to me? A schmk who knows the word 'commission' wants to talk to me about my money. Do you have ... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? We had an ’18 Nissan Pathfinder a couple years ago with a premium Bose system in it. It never sounded particularly good if you were listening to the radio or CD. Volume wise you really couldn’t get satisfactory punch or crank on, but on a long roa... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? Leer at women much too young and good looking for them while remaining passively dissatisfied with the disappointing melange of muddy frequencies served up daily by their car audio system.I have a tragically mediocre UConnect/Beats Premium stereo ... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard hilde452,541 posts10-07-2021 10:17pmIf anyone quotes a Doors song, I'm outta here.Five To One! | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. I don't think the OP is 'dreaming' at all. Back in the '80s and '90s, I made some magnificent sounding High Bias/UDXL2 cassettes that were way more clean, punchy and dynamic than anything I would have had to put the time, expense and effort into g... | |
| Aged components / service!? I don’t understand all this hard and fast ’if it’s over 10 years old don’t buy it’ nonsense. Same for the people who are so completely sure that their new equipment, by virtue of its new engineering, is light years ahead of, let’s say for sake of ... | |
| eBay secretly over charged sellers eBay, as mentioned by one of the other posters, is the biggest game in town with the most exposure for your item. That's what you pay for when you go there, otherwise start your own auction website and pay what you want. Buenos suerte.In reality, ... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? "Sorry- but the dealer mark up includes the cost of doing business and that includes marketing."This is where it gets sometimes gets messy.The often beleaguered dealer can find themselves between a rock and a hard placeWhat to do then? Relationsh... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? I’m with danager.I think that talking about a fee is really dope.It’s the quickest way to go out of biz.There are too many places that offer free returns a price matching now days to set up as a nickel dimer. If you can’t keep the lights on get ou... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? I’m sure there are more than a few of us who’ve used the dealers gear & facility only to purchase elsewhere. It’s hard enough to stay in business these days, particularly with this modality. So if dealers can make themselves a little coin and ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states I stopped reading a few pages in, so forgive me if I repeat something someone else said. Chances are you've listened to your system in an unaltered state often enough. Furthermore, I'm almost sure most of us bought it that way. If it sounds extra ... | |
| 100W+ solid-state amps known for beautiful mids I'm reading these posts and kind of envying how (relatively) easy it is/was to find a pretty damn good hundred watt amp.I find it's a lot harder to find magic when you're looking for 250 w and more. | |
| Is your now then? I’m not sure if I’ve romanticized the memory of the sound the came out of my Technics SL1800 TT’s into an 85 Watt Marantz 2385 receiver into some big fuzzy brown Cerwin Vegas, but I remember it as visceral and glorious. I’ve yet to hear vinyl soun... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. schubert7,162 posts08-07-2021 2:51pmMissed out what? Music that ensures a man 60 year old has the brain of a teen-ager forever ?That's a nice start. They missed out on seeing ELVIS up close for 12 bucks. The music of our youth is the music that c... |