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RE: Only a dealer...

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In Reply to: RE: Only a dealer... posted by elliot@frontrowtheater.com on May 14, 2008 at 06:38:02

"You can't have it both ways you either are willing to pay for the service and the priviledge or you spend your money and take your chances."

I have had it both ways. I purchased my speakers from a local dealer because the product I wanted was available locally. Unfortunately, with one local dealer, more often than not, I cannot purchase locally the products I want locally. I recently purchased a Music Reference RM200 from a dealer who is a nine hour drive from me. I purchased it without listening because at the time he was the closest dealer, and there was not practical way for me to audition it. I have now learned of another dealer five hours away who has since become a Music Reference dealer. I wanted a tube amp, and at the time my only other option was to buy McIntosh, without any comparative listening, because that is the only manufacturer sold locally.

You keep trying to sell me on the virtues of a utilizing a dealer, but fail to answer the question as to what the poor audiophile without a local dealer is to do when there is no local dealer available. I posit that your lack of a response to this question, other than making a long distance buddy, means that you have no answer for that audiophile.

And herein lies your misunderstanding. I'm willing to pay for the service, and I have paid for the service. The question is what to do when there are no dealers selling the service in the first place. I plan to upgrade my pre-amp in early 2010, likely spending 4-5k on a tube pre. Get in touch with me so I can tell you how to make arrangements for you to get me to your shop. After all, I am just following your suggestion, which, I think, a conscientous dealer such as yourself would be open to.

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RE: Only a dealer... - elliot@frontrowtheater.com 13:06:59 05/14/08 (1)
- RE: Only a dealer... - jamesgarvin 09:59:41 05/15/08 (0)

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