OooooOhhh man, am I going to open up a can of worms with you guys on this one.

Ok, so after getting some advice on speakers in these forums I decided I'll go listen to some. So off I went to a few different electronics stores to listen to speakers. I heard everything from Nuance speakers to Bose, Polk, etc, etc. Now, I've read in here by the enthusiasts that say you must go hear the speakers for yourself, because everyone hears things differently. Ok, that's fine. But now heres where i open the can.

When I go to a stereo shop to list to speakers, they have a perfect sound room for the brands they are selling. They will ask what you listen to, and pull out a demo cd (some stores wanted to use their own pick for obvious reason). Now they play the music, you sit in a chair that's in a perfect position in the middle of the room surrounded by their expertly setup system to listen to their brand of speakers. They can make them all sound good in their envoirnment. The room I'm using isn't anywhere near what they have, mine is lived in and isn't a sound room. So how can you expect to pick speakers when the salesperson is going to tell you what you want to hear, as well as with their perfect setup room make you hear exaclty what you want?

As soon I as I brought this point up, and said "well what if I take them home and don't like them because of my room setup and location" the answer I got normally was that the room does effect the sound and that it's a risk when purchasing. Some said they would take them back before 30days, others said because they are audio equipment they couldn't take them back.

So it's great that alot of forum users say you shouldn't rely on peoples opinions and to listen to them yourselfs, but I say I would rather hear the opinions from users that have the speakers at home, in a room that isn't perfect, so I get the real story and not an illusion of what could be. (can open, worms everywhere!)

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