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Would You Pay to Listen?

Imaging the best sounding system you've ever heard. My question is, would you pay (say on an hourly basis) to listen to that system. You bring the music, friends, refreshments, etc. and you have the use of a state-of-the-art system in a professionally designed acoustic space.

Possible reasons to pay to hear such a system:

- unlike the local audio salon, you could listen without the pressure of a salesman trying to sell you equipment

- you could use it as a reference to your home system

- you could use it as a refuge, a place away from the spouse and kids where you could truly experience dedicated listening

To be honest, I'm not sure I would pay for such a service, but then again if it were cheap enough, occasionally, maybe I would. What's your thoughts?
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sugarbrie
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If it is only to sell somethiing to me, I guess not me. It is kind of like people who pay $5 for a Coors Light (or other) T-Shirt. Should'nt they be paying you for wearing a billboard advertising their product.

Now if someone was renting out a home theater room for a party, I might pay for that. No different then getting a private room in a restaurant. I've actually seen this sort of thing in Asia, although it is not an audiophile room. When Michael Jordon takes his family to the movies, he usually pays to rent the whole theater room and they invite their friends. It is the only way he can watch a current movie in a large theater with his family in peace. He would be mobbed by autograph seekers during the movie otherwise.

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onhwy61 OP
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Sugarbrie, there would be no selling of anything other than the right to listen to music.
rcprince
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No. I'd rather spend the money on a live concert. Why settle for a pale imitation of the real thing, no matter how good the system?
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dweller
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I'd pay to rent a house, far from civilization, with conditioned beefy A/C and a first rate sound system.
Or the same house where I could bring my own system for a week or so. Being an apartment "Dweller" puts a crimp in
your listening capabilities!
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