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In Reply to: RE: A must read about brick and mortar dealers by Jim Smith posted by jnr on July 16, 2014 at 16:29:51
just completely wrong.
Did it ever occur to him that the high end companies are building gear that the broader market doesn't want? For that matter, that the audiophile community doesn't even want? Most of it becoming ever more corpulent and ugly as the prices skyrocket and the user interfaces become needlessly complex rather than more intuitive.
Is he aware of the changes in our lifestyles brought on by the revolution in mobile devices? Changes in the way that we live our lives? The high end might take a lesson from Apple, if not Bose.
No matter how caring and sensitive the gear jockey at the high end hut is, for the most part, he is selling the past. A past that ever fewer people want. The Maytag repairman of yore has become the Krell salesman of today.
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Did some dealer beat you up as a kid?
wrong things will continue to hold back the hobby. I think that the problem does not lie solely, or even principally, with dealers; you are welcome to the opposing opinion. And yes, I was brutally beaten by a Sansui dealer in my formative years. Feel like a big man now?
Edits: 07/16/14
manufactured by so many competing companies, world-wide.
That said, I share your frustration at the lack of high-end product available for easy computer/iPOD usage, the lack of marketing to younger folks. The success of Beat headphones is a prime example of how to market, albeit an inferior product.
For sound quality,sure. But it's not a product about sound, where it fails, but it is about fashion where it succeeds wildly.
The Michael Graves tea pot was barely functional as a tea pot but it was the iconic home accessory of its time.
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