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In Reply to: Just keeping you honest with both posted by bjh on December 17, 2005 at 13:24:59:
Something occured to me after I posted my last message. Maybe you mistook the subject line of my post ("you're 1 for 2") as being a referal to the immediatly proceeding post or my discussing of both pro and con of the JD100 That was not why I titled it "1 for 2" at all, but rather because he had assumed that both the JD9 and the JD100 were tube buffered, when in fact only the JD9 is.
Anyway that aside, I do get a lot of private email from people who genuinely do respect my opinion or simply agree with it. That doesn't make me any form of diety surely. I am of most humble means yet have rather stong convictions when based on empirical evidence, which a personal visit to my shop would verify. It is nice to get some positive remarks from readers here yet I don't let it go to my head. I learn a lot from others also. I don't reflect that so much as I always prefer to try things for myself. That is why I am always advising people to go out and listen rather than trying to horde information and make decisions from text found online. You may or may not be surprised but I get a lot of people who visit my shop who have read some things that they take for granted and so have some preconceived notions of, yet then find them to be false after seeing or hearing first hand here. The Grado/Rega hum has to be my favorite "audio urban legend" as nearly everyone who hears a demo is struck by the quality of sound and lack of hum after reading so much about it. Some of my customers disagree about particular sonic favorites of mine and have their own. I try to listen to them and point them in the direction that I feel best serves their tastes and encourage them to listen to others just to keep their bias in check. For instance, I may favor a particular speaker and some customers simply like another. Everyone hears differently in regards to tone, I feel. Some people are also more sensitive to distortion than others.
As far as product line changes here, that is very far from reality. I have ditched only a few companies due to their being poor business partners or simply not having a reliable product (or both in two cases) while only a couple of others have fallen by the wayside due to a lack of demand for the product even though I liked it. I have been in business for 8 years and actually most of the lines that we offer have been here since the first year. I have added a few others every few years, but kept the list as short as possible. I don't like the trend of many online or mail-order houses that advertise a huge list of names and then not actually carry anything as it is both deceptive and self-serving. When customers arrive at our door they can expect to be able to hear much of what they see at our website and I actually have some in-store photos posted to prove that although they are a bit dated. When I say that I have a lot of CD players to compare here, I mean that we have no fewer than 11 on demo here right now.
-Bill
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