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In Reply to: RE: Dealer audition faux pas... experiences? posted by Jonesy on April 29, 2016 at 07:12:17
I had the same thing happen to me, albeit this was at a Tweeter store. I was auditioning 3 different pairs of outdoor speakers and one of them was clearly wired out of phase. I pointed it out to the salesman and the guy refused to believe me. It went something like this:
Me: Uh, I think you have one of the speaker cables reversed on that pair
Salesman: No, that can't be
Me: Well, it's obviously wired out of phase
Salesman: I just set it up yesterday and I connected them the same way as the others
Me: But there's no soundstage, the singer should be coming from between the speakers
Salesman: What do you mean soundstage?
Me: Sigh. Can you please just check, I would like to audition these
Salesman: Look, I'm certain they're connected correctly, that's just the way they sound. They're a lot better than the others you just heard.
Me: All right, never mind then
I had to drive an hour to another Tweeter store to hear the damn things. You have to wonder what people are doing working in an audio/video specialty shop when they can't even hear a speaker wired out of phase when it's pointed out to them in a back to back audition.
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Not a very kind way to refer to hungry men.
I gave up on minimum wage mouth-breathers a long time ago.
I always ask a simple question about the speakers like, "Are these able to be actively bi-amped?" and that almost always results in a wide eyed stare and they leave me alone.
Maybe one day a salesman at Magnolia will understand that but until they make more than 7 bucks an hour, no one with a brain (or that cares) will ask me about what electronic crossovers I'm using....lately the "high end" areas of these stores don't even have anything interesting beyond the latest mid-level ML speakers or whatever watered-down crap the DefTech badge is now being plastered onto.
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