harley .guy07
10-02-2013, 12:02 PM
Its know wonder the companies like Best Buy are suffering sales on audio components to online retailers. I went to my local BB today to get a quick listen to the Pioneer speakers that Andrew Jones designed just to see what all the fuss was about with how good they were for the money. And while I was impressed with them in the way they looked I really could not get a since of how they sounded because one - the volume knob was broke off of the receiver controlling the floorstanding speakers and the bookshelf models were playing a radio station that was muffled and barely coming in. Two - they had all the speakers sitting there just thrown on a shelf where some lazy person just unpacked them and left them to sit with no attention to space between them or anything else.
I know this is not news to anyone over the last few years but I have been in some supposed audiophile shops that do the same kind of thing and all the time they complain that people will buy on line to save a few bucks. Well if the shops aren't going to give you a reason to stay and listen to the speakers set up properly then why should I give them more money than an online retailer.
Plus any time I go to one of my local shops they seem to want to give you any of their time if you are not willing to replace everything in your system with their lines or willing to spend thousands of your money replacing components that you already are happy with.
I don't know how many times when I was shopping for a preamp back in 2011 I would go into the local shops and all I would get was how I need to get this preamp and also change my front end and my amplifier as well. I can understand someone in sales trying to get more of a sale out of me but to go to the extent to slam the stuff I have in order to do it is a whole other thing.
I guess in all this what I am saying is that I used to work in this field and I never acted like some of these shop owners and there sales people and I would not act like some of them. If you have shops in your respective areas that aren't like that then great I would suggest you spread the word about the few shops left that are like that and maybe we can do something about stores out there that act like what I have described.
I know this is not news to anyone over the last few years but I have been in some supposed audiophile shops that do the same kind of thing and all the time they complain that people will buy on line to save a few bucks. Well if the shops aren't going to give you a reason to stay and listen to the speakers set up properly then why should I give them more money than an online retailer.
Plus any time I go to one of my local shops they seem to want to give you any of their time if you are not willing to replace everything in your system with their lines or willing to spend thousands of your money replacing components that you already are happy with.
I don't know how many times when I was shopping for a preamp back in 2011 I would go into the local shops and all I would get was how I need to get this preamp and also change my front end and my amplifier as well. I can understand someone in sales trying to get more of a sale out of me but to go to the extent to slam the stuff I have in order to do it is a whole other thing.
I guess in all this what I am saying is that I used to work in this field and I never acted like some of these shop owners and there sales people and I would not act like some of them. If you have shops in your respective areas that aren't like that then great I would suggest you spread the word about the few shops left that are like that and maybe we can do something about stores out there that act like what I have described.