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High Performance Audio - The End?
deep_333,By "By now, we know..." I meant that by now some of us have read your posts and relized that you do have very vivid imagination. We almost got worried it is sliding into illusion, delusion, and hallucination territory.The Pioneer speakers... 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
"...there is NO PROFIT on this at all."Raise the price. $40 000 and no whining. 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
"This is at least a 8 hour job."How long does it take for those amplifiers to be assembled in the factory? 
High Performance Audio - The End?
deep_333,"@glupson, i can only imagine which genius designed your speaker! (Tee hee) "By now, we know you have very vivid imagination. 
High Performance Audio - The End?
"When i stop by my doc’s house..."In old days, doctors would make house calls. These days patients do house calls? 
High Performance Audio - The End?
"But, you can give a genius like Andrew Jones or Eric Alexander very little money and he will come up with a genius grade speaker"I have heard inexpensive well-regarded Pioneer speakers designed by Andrew Jones. They were not worth $200-300 asking... 
Moving to France
"what about snail conversion?"Not the best choice. It slows the rhythm a bit.Enjoy France, it is a pleasant place in fact. 
Speaker upgrade question.
The best way would be to bring a few pairs (not necessarly at once) of newer speakers home and check what it is all about. Maybe a member in your area has a pair of whatever brand and model and you could compare. 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
tomcy6,"glupson, You don’t think there’s a difference between getting a bike out from the back and setting up a system with a couple of 170 lb amps?"I was just pointing out different approaches in enticing a potential buyer.To answer your question... 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
"Then the customer goes and buys online at a discounted price."Is the dealer allowed to sell new Audio Research equipment online? I know that some brands have restrictions, but I am not sure about Audio Research.For old and used equipment, I guess... 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
"... walk into a store and tell the owner that he would like to give the amps in storage a listen because he’s never heard them, and he might be interested, and then expect the owner to say sure, come back tomorrow because it’s going to take me a ... 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
stringreen,You are certainly right, but that was the only car around I could fit in, had a trunk, and could hold the road as good as any (Evo, I think it was IX but may be wrong about it as it was a while back). 
Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store
mitch4t,My current system is here:https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/876 Nice system, no doubt about it, but what launches it into different galaxy is your tuner. Hats off. 
Music storage for best possible playback
I have done the same (CDs/SACDs and even records into FLAC/DSD). I use a dedicated audio server by SONY with SSD hard drive inside. I also tried laptop computer to DAC, files on the same internal drive as Windows everything. When going through the... 
All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?!
Yes, but have you seen that giant?