The Audio Doctor makes a house call

Audiodoctor, don’t feed the trolls. They bring you down to their level and beat you with their experience playing in the mud. We have several on this site and they’ve made themselves quite well known. 

everyone has a bias.. or what they believe to be the best.. you read it constantly from the same folks pitching their brand of speakers that are favorites for them. Whenever some one makes the case for a pair of speakers they feel is best there is never a 100 % consensus on agreement.  i recognize a sales pitch and that does not bother me, i   view it as a similar bias really. It's all good.. There are probably people in sales whom do not make that known when posting. One thing is you can drive yourself crazy second guessing what to buy, so much so that you never buy anything and continue to miss out.

i live in Arizona and have valued the Audio Doctor's insight into the audiophile world.  In fact i ended up visiting him and his store in Jersey City.  He has never and I say never imposed his merchandise on me.  He offers me options.  I don't mind him mentioning the products he sells in this forum.  I don't have a lot of options in Arizona other than Mac / Wilson / Sonus Faber / AR to name a few.  i trust his judgement.  And even though many are bothered because you think he is trying to hawk his products on this website, I would have to say he is the smart one.  I probably never would have purchased anything from him if I didn't read this site.  It's a competitive business and he wants two things:  One, to help people make informed decisions on what they buy and what is available and two, obviously to sell product.  It's the American way!

+1. Well said, will.  The Audio Doctor has helped me a lot with equipment recommendations, system setup and troubleshooting,  His recommendations have been excellent. He has not suggested replacing equipment that doesn’t need replacing, just to make a sale.  My system sounds much better as a result of his advice.  He continues to provide help if issues arise. We can debate the issue of how far a dealer should go on this board to recommend products he sells.  As will says, dealers  are in a competitive business. But I also agree with will that the Doctor genuinely tries to help and, because he is familiar with so many products, he is a great source of knowledge. Some  of the critics on this thread seem to overlook the positives in expressing their personal opinions about his product promotion.  

I am very familiar with Dave having met with him at Sound By Singer on numerous occasions and had personal sales dealings with him. I have never suggested that he does not know what he's doing or that he does not carry good and sometimes excellent products (ie T&A). However, having a system that has morphed over many years and having substantial experience with literally hundreds of brands (and having built some kit myself)--it is his constant salesmanship here that is troubling. He claims that he carries the best of everything because he has personally listened to all of the competitors and his stuff is best. What about the dealers who would not permit him to represent them because they do not like sales out of a room in his house crowded with tons of equipment? What about the brands who are happy with other nearby dealerships and will not hurt them by letting him carry the same equipment? In NY, there are at least 10 high end dealers that carry prominent brands so it is not like other areas of the country where a manufacturer would love to have representation of any kind. 
As one who has gone to dozens of audio shows and knows every owner of each major dealer in NY personally (having made significant purchases over the years at virtually all of them)--I can say that any one of them can do what Dave does. They all genuinely believe in what they sell. They all carry excellent, well regarded and well reviewed gear and have on display in dedicated rooms signature systems that sound incredible--although each such system is not to everyone's tastes when compared to the others. Most have more experience than Dave (and he has a lot). So I am happy for those who appreciate Dave's work with them. I am unhappy for the rest of us who tire of his constant, self serving, long winded self promotion here.
 If all of the dealers I knew did what he did on this site (and any of them easily could), Audiogon would be less fun and have a lot less members. I hope Dave doesn't respond with his usual blabber about how many people he has helped, how he genuinely wants to help people but other dealers are just in it for the money, how he is performing a public service and why some people here are happy with his advice and should not be deprived of it because of people like me, etc,----   which is his usual response to criticism.