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| Why do dealers do this? Its true as Shadorne points out in a busy store that salespeople will naturally try to target the person who appears to be the next big ticket.However, most shops I go into these days are not that busy so you would expect the sales people are more... | |
| Why do dealers do this? By the way, it must be hard for live dealers to try to operate with traditional boutique business models these days. Audiophiles are a finicky bunch when it comes to how systems sound, and what you hear in a store is not necessarily what you'll he... | |
| Why do dealers do this? You encountered a bad dealer, plain and simple. His attitude is self defeating. The only way he can survive is to provide better service to his customers than the alternatives and apparently he isn't.Try to find a good one if you can. They are sti... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? " The suspense is killing me"Me too!When my big, heavy, Ohm 5's shipped from Ohm, the cabinet boxes were reinforced with solid particle board for protection. I'm in the next day delivery zone for UPS in NY, so they only had to survive in their sys... | |
| High end Audio for ladies? Check this out "Judging from the appearance/social skills/personal grooming of the men (especially in the SET/horn crowd) - no need to worry about having too many women hanging around."Ouch!I may have to think twice about adding a pair of horn loaded speaks to m... | |
| Symphonic Line RG1 MK4 Vs Plinius SA-102 Musical Fidelity A3CR does the job with Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkIIs in my system.I also had a vintage Tandberg amp in my system for a while that I particularly liked with the Dyns.I'd recommend a tube pre-amp or tube DAC for digital sources in conj... | |
| Best of RMAF 2008 DC,I had a Tandberg receiver that I somewhat regret not sending to Soundsmith to get tuned up rather than selling. Their cartridges and other equipment caught my eye in the process and I have heard some very good things. Will look forward to your ... | |
| High end Audio for ladies? Check this out "Women tend to be multi tasking and would prefer to listen to music in situations other than secluding themselves to a designated room with a single chair. "No doubt. | |
| High end Audio for ladies? Check this out I really do think an audio site geared towards women is a novel concept + I truly hope it is successful.However it is a fact that in the case of my wife, she has no interest in this stuff other than how it looks and whether or not I play our syste... | |
| NAD 304 - Best SS amp ever? What do you use for source units? Cd/digital or phono or both? | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Pre I'm very interested in your impressions of the Benchmark on your particular horn/tube based system. I'm thinking you should have a really good thing going with this particular combo. | |
| High end Audio for ladies? Check this out I'll have to try this site out on my wife! She doesn't know a woofer from our family dog. | |
| List : Components with high dynamics With digital sources, it is possible to maximize source dynamics with various devices in the digital domain.In the analog domain, a 3 band DBX device like a 3BX can be had for just a few hundred and can help correct for dynamics challenged source ... | |
| DBX Expander $700 is a lot.I paid between 2-3 hundred for mine on Ebay.Ask a lot of questions before buying used though. These units have been around for a while. Make sure everything sounds good, no noise or distortion, switches and adjustments work cleanly, ... | |
| List : Components with high dynamics High efficiency horn loaded speakers like Klipsch, Avantgarde, and others. |