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entwisi · 24-12-2007, 10:20

heh, Want to borrow my electrostatics for a while? They will blow you away with soundstage and clarity.

When I sold the stuff it always made me laugh when people brought in what HiFi etc and wanted to buy the latest greatest without even listening to it. My comment was that there were three words missing from every single review in every single magazine " In my opinion"

If there is one thing that took the longest to get across it was that only you can decide what sounds 'better' as I don't have the same hearing that you do. I prefer a natural clarity to my sound(hence I love the electrostats and the valve amps. the Kefs give the closest to that sound without being there) , you may like a crisper, brighter sound, then the next bloke wants bass heavy boom. None of us are 'right', just different. When it comes to spending more money on kit, its a law of depreciating returns, moving from a £100 amp to a £200 will be very noticeable but from a £500-£600 will be much harder to justify. Same with speakers.

I sold stuff on the principle of starting a system at 75% of what the customer wanted to spend then tweaking individual components and if they could hear a difference then fair enough, if they couldn't then no point in spending it. Often I could save them (quite) a few quid which meant they went home happy and recommended us to friends etc. I reckon we made far more money from repeat sales than from squeezing every last penny from each customer. It was nice to actually see people with systems that were suited purely to them and their listening rather than whatever Joe bloggs who writes for a magazine thinks they should have. I used to really enjoy doing teh install in peoples homes as you could really make a difference by proper positioning speakers etc.

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entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4389	Re: laminate flooring heh, Want to borrow my electrostatics for a while? They will blow you away with soundstage and clarity. When I sold the stuff it always made me laugh when people brought in what HiFi etc and wanted to buy the latest greatest without even listening to it. My comment was that there were three words missing from every single review in every single magazine " In my opinion" If there is one thing that took the longest to get across it was that only you can decide what sounds 'better' as I don't have the same hearing that you do. I prefer a natural clarity to my sound(hence I love the electrostats and the valve amps. the Kefs give the closest to that sound without being there) , you may like a crisper, brighter sound, then the next bloke wants bass heavy boom. None of us are 'right', just different. When it comes to spending more money on kit, its a law of depreciating returns, moving from a £100 amp to a £200 will be very noticeable but from a £500-£600 will be much harder to justify. Same with speakers. I sold stuff on the principle of starting a system at 75% of what the customer wanted to spend then tweaking individual components and if they could hear a difference then fair enough, if they couldn't then no point in spending it. Often I could save them (quite) a few quid which meant they went home happy and recommended us to friends etc. I reckon we made far more money from repeat sales than from squeezing every last penny from each customer. It was nice to actually see people with systems that were suited purely to them and their listening rather than whatever Joe bloggs who writes for a magazine thinks they should have. I used to really enjoy doing teh install in peoples homes as you could really make a difference by proper positioning speakers etc. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?