Originally Posted by
Clint H
I visited Audio Counsel (For the first time) in Diggle today for a demo of 2 valve phono stages. Only wanted to listen to one phono stage but on their advice listened to another & glad I did because it was a lovely musical phono stage, better than the one I wanted to listen to (Just more musical) Great demo, great advice, friendly, no hard sell. I will be purchasing a phono stage from them in the near future. This is what I really like about using small, independent hifi shop's, great demo's, great advice, NO hard sell. When you do buy from these guy's, you are helping the local economy & not feeding a great corporate money making machine like Amazon for instance.
As for going to a dealer for advice & then buying on line (Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!) A friend of mine runs a camera shop in Chester & he gets people visiting his shop to look at a certain camera & they have a play, hand it back & leave. They then return with the same camera they have purchased on line & have a problem with it. They are then asked if they purchased the camera from my friends shop & when they say "No I bought off the internet" they are told to contact the on line dealer they purchased it from "But they don't have anyone to contact if there is a fault" to which my mate simply replies, "Part of the benefit from buying form a high street dealer such as ourselves is if you have a problem with your purchase, you can bring it back into us & we will sort it out for you. As you have not bought the camera from us I am unfortunately unable to help you"
I bet that 'online' customer's face was a picture! (Albeit a bit out of focus and poorly lit)
+1 for Audio Counsel (nice man is Dave) Demos are by appointment only, which gives demo an unhurried and personal feel). They ended up getting my custom And I just know that if there was ever a problem I wouldn't be left to fend for myself.
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
Forget the past, it's gone. And don't worry about the future, it doesn't exist. There is only NOW.
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