Are you sure it was a parka? I suspect it might have been a mackintosh.In fairness this is the first report of unsolicited parka relocation I have heard relating to McIntosh dealers in 20 odd years of running an audio forum.
In fairness this is the first report of unsolicited parka relocation I have heard relating to McIntosh dealers in 20 odd years of running an audio forum.
Exactly that, I have suggested from time to time my kids smash their choice of music through my system, they can Spotify whatever they want, they have a few CDs even, mostly given as presents, I have a few records of stuff I know they like, they could not care less. They just don't get it. They are quite happy with their phones and some £20 headphones ... sigh, think I'll give it all to the cats home ...I’d be curious if any members have let one of them youths of today listen to an old school system. I suspect they’d be “very nice grandpa but I’ll stick with my phone” but I may be wrong.
That’s their job and to look after them and guide them as customers. It’s the high prevalence of dealer nutters that is the deeply disturbing bit and driving nails in the coffin of hifi faster than the retail price expanding faster than the event horizon of the universe. Welcome to the Fawlty Towers of Hifi Dealers.Dealers have to put up with some right nutters
It is something of a death spiralThat’s their job and to look after them and guide them as customers. It’s the high prevalence of dealer nutters that is the deeply disturbing bit and driving nails in the coffin of hifi faster than the price rises expanding faster than the event horizon of the universe. Welcome to the Fawlty Towers of Hifi Dealers.
Which came first, the nutter punters, or the nutty dealers? Cause and effect?Dealers have to put up with some right nutters
That's true, and that's why I'm building the JLH69 that I brought to the bakeoff for people to see. However I regard it almost as a separate activity, as you suggest the pleasure is in making something and working out how it works. It's like rebuilding a vintage motorbike, it's the exercise itself. If all you want is to ride one, buy a Honda.I think you misunderstand my intent. Neither my friends nor I indulge in DIY to save money as such. Most of the DIY audio hobbyists I know do it for the love of learning about the subject and building something custom to ones specific needs. Of course there are potential savings to be made but only when building components that aspire to the state of the art - £20.00 chip amps are best left to those who already do them best.
Nutter dealers. Definitely. That's why Not The 9... did a spoof on them. That was back in the days when everyone wanted "a hifi" and normal, non geeky consumers bought Pioneer or Dual and aspired to saving up for a Thorens or maybe (one day) a Linn.Which came first, the nutter punters, or the nutty dealers? Cause and effect?
Clucking bells, give me strength.
2015 and 2016. I visited near two dozen dealers in their shops and homes. Was on the whole a pretty miserable experience except for the gear itself. Audiophile vendors can be a lunatic, insane and dogmatic bunch. There’s so much dogma, ideology and downright bias to wade through you have to sit through a lot of irritating guff. You have....your tube fanatics who think that anything made after 1960s is useless, the vinyl fanatics, the Japanese hifi fanatics who poo poor valves and vinyl and idolise Esoteric or nothing, the dealer that obsess about Japanese silver point to point and has never heard of room correction and room treatment but will bang on about capacitor sounds, the lunatic subjectivists that swear by CD demagnetisers and can hear difference in cable lifters, the ones that scoff when you tell them you heard a piece gear that you like that they don’t sell, the autistic dealer ice cold aloof and rectilinear that struggles to speak at KJ West one, the dealer that will ONLY play their favourite tracks, the car sales man who now knows everything about DACs better than the digital engineers, the dealer that keeps you waiting for an hour despite making an appointment at KJ West One, the dealer that rolls out the sales patter and points out why your ideas on what you are looking for are all wrong wrong wrong and he knows best really he knows best and he will tell you that he knows best, the Nottingham “scrumpdiddlyumtious midrange” dealer for whom it’s all about the valve midrange, the valve midrange, the valve midrange, the valve midrange who insists you need to spend at least £30k on each component before you can get going in hifi otherwise it’s all “prosaic”, the dealer who helped record a few records for x,y and z and now knows everything about recording and mastering, the Beryllium dealer, the paper cone and whizzer dealer, the high efficiency dealer, the class A or nothing, the valves have to be in the cartridge feeding the tone arm powered by valve, on turntable powered by valves and transformers, with tubes everywhere anywhere and all over and transistors are Satanic, the antisocial and near psychotic Zanden Audiofresks dealer in South London dealer who started shouting at me when I asked how I go about arranging a demo....I could go on and on. Clucking bells, give me strength.
Which came first, the nutter punters, or the nutty dealers? Cause and effect?
There’s a wide range of shall we say ‘customer handling’ abilities among dealers. Most of them get it right- seek to understand their customer then aim to please them, put credit card through machine and look forward to long relationship. The poor ones are in the minority but they do stick in your mind and for years!Nutter dealers. Definitely. That's why Not The 9... did a spoof on them. That was back in the days when everyone wanted "a hifi" and normal, non geeky consumers bought Pioneer or Dual and aspired to saving up for a Thorens or maybe (one day) a Linn.