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"Stewart Pinkerton" <patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 9 Oct 2004 04:57:34 GMT, "Norman M. Schwartz" <nmsz@optonline.net>
> wrote:
>
> >"Stewart Pinkerton" <patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> >> >An in home audition of a MG 20.1? Neat trick if you can do it.
> >>
> >> But otherwise, there's simply *no* point in giving advice, since large
> >> planar dipoles are acutely room-sensitive. Besides, any dealer selling
> >> MG 20s should without question be offering a 'money back' home trial
> >> of at least two weeks. If you can't afford to pony up for that, how
> >> were you going to pay for the speakers in the first place?
> >> --
> >
> >It is assumed we are not putzing around here and that we have the funds
> >available not only to purchase the speakers but also own the equipment
> >necessary for their satisfactory amplification. It is also assumed we
have
> >appropriate living quarters for a suitable location offering their best
> >possible sound (and that we will not have to move them about when we are
> >entertaining so as to then trip over their cableing
Twelve inches
> >towards a wrong location makes a huge difference in the sound of my
Maggies.
> >Are you suggesting that a dealer will sacrfice his floor model for a 2
week
> >audition or is he/she to offer you a brand new MG 20.1 for this purpose?
If
> >the latter, once out of their original boxes and in your home for this
> >audition, how are they to be sold, new/used? How will the speaker be
trucked
> >back and forth to your home? Who is going to undertake the cost of their
> >safe packageing and transport in the event you decide not to purchase
them?
> >As I indicated, "neat trick if you can do it". My Magnepan dealer has
been
> >in my home attending to the ribbons in my speakers several times and in
> >another occasion to install wire behind my walls and underneath a crawl
> >space in another room used for HT. Yet I still don't not have the balls
to
> >suggest what you are proposeing.
>
> That you, in your own words, "don't have the balls" to suggest a 'sale
> or return' deal on speakers which may be quite unsuited to your room,
> does not make it a bad idea. I don't know what dealers are like in
> your area, but I have *never* encountered a 'high-end' dealer in the
> UK who was not prepared to allow such a deal, and I would certainly
> never deal with one who had such an attitude. What, if you spent say
> $5,000 on a pair of speakers that just didn't work in your room, you
> would be happy to keep them?
>
> BTW, I would be happy to pay for shipping costs in such a case,
> although the matter has never come up. In fact, my local dealer
> *insists* on making home deliveries, probably as a security measure. I
> have probably rejected a dozen assorted amplifiers and speakers over
> the years after a few days home trial, and this has never caused a
> problem. To be fair, I've spent the same or more money on actual
> purchases, so the dealers know that there's an eventual sale in it -
> I'm not just a 'tyre kicker'. I don't think I've ever taken more than
> a week to decide that something just wasn't going to work, but any
> dealer I've ever bought from has had a 30-day return policy - and not
> with any 'restocking' charges.
> --
I too have bought and auditioned lots of equipment from my dealer over a
long time, on one occassion taken home his demo Sequerra 1 FM tuner for a
weekend (while his store was closed) with no problems or reservations
whatsoever. However I agreed to have the tuner back in his store when he
re-opened Monday 10AM (and did). Yet I still would not either ask for his
floor demo MG20.1 for even a single week nor would I ask to get home (one
way or another) a brand new stock MG 20.1s for audition and perhaps only
then to decide to stay with my old speakers. I would not want to buy a new ?
MG 20.1 that (even) you had in your home for a single hour nor would I
expect the dealer to be without his floor model for a single week perhaps
causeing him to lose a sale to another dealer which did have a MG 20.1 on
site. My last word on this subject is as was my first, "neat trick if you
can do it".