Could The Music Room biz model be duplicated? A second TMR?

There is another one. Or was?I'm not sure if they are still doing business.https://skyfiaudio.com
I've been happy doing business with TMR a few times myself.

audio classics Vestal NY has a lot of used gear as does Hawthorne in Seattle. but as a happy customer f all three, TMR is unique. Speaker shipped to  them is uneconomic on my last quote..but ya can’t always win….

i think TMR is > 15 employees now, doing something, many things right…

Anyone remember Jeff's Sound Values. There have been others in the past. And there are others today, as has been pointed out.

@theo Don’t get me wrong -- I love TMR and will continue, happily, to do business with them.

I’m just thinking about this because we have a country with 330 million people and brick and mortar stores in audio are continuing to go under. There are other manufacturers besides ps audio that could benefit from a partner arrangement with a second TMR, too.

So, nothing against TMR and I wish them continued success. I’m just imagining that the country could be big enough either for another TMR or even another store like it.

But you and others raise a good point about whether the country could support two TMR. I suppose if we agreed that it couldn’t, then the industry is really in decline.

I like Echo Audio and the others, but the variety of TMR is exceptional. I'm just imagining that something like TMR was located in CA. The number of companies local to them would be enormous, and if a couple were large -- say, Schiit and Parasound -- there could be a synergy that works. Access to shipping and transportation, plus the scale of the CA economy...could be a winner.

Maybe TMR should open a second site on the east coast. They could increase their used inventory by being in a couple locations and save on shipping costs for those buying and selling. By the way they no longer carry PS Audio since PS decided to move everything in house and deal directly with their customers.