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When suggesting audio components for friends and relatives...

This is a bit of "thinking out loud". I believe I have been lucky as what I have helped friends and relatives with in buying higher end and even simple components has worked out very well.

With some it was a simple system as in a Nakamichi SoundSpace 5 or the like, and with some it was Magnepans, Martin-Logans, Audio Research...and others.

The question is have you had good success kindly helping others? Have there been any regrets or negative situations? About the only slight downside was after selling a former high end system of mine to my best friend, he died from cancer and his wife replaced some of the items with BestBuy "stuff" and I could never understand as to why.


whatjd
glupson
7,842 posts
 
millercarbon hosted a "party" TWO months ago, and doctors attended...

I was more in awe of charging friends a fee for advice on what to buy for $1200. "Rubber bands from cilantro bunches are much much better than those from curly parsley. Look for the pink ones, they are worth it. Everyone will notice the difference, even cilantro-haters."

The question remains if the doctors at the party observed all epidemiologic recommendations.
frogman
7,497 posts
 
https://youtu.be/Y8EMndSFFMk
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roxy54
8,151 posts
 
No matter what I have ever suggested to friends, they consider it too expensive. I have had zero luck in this arena.
whatjd OP
1,139 posts
 
My experience has also included others on the "way up" in their audio journey.  Even helped my Mom get an old KLH compact system which she used for the balance of her life.  Even with the very high end system I had for my use, I was always impressed with how good the old KLH compact was.  The FM on it,  with an outdoor directional FM antenna I set up, was very good and never had a drift problem.  Through the years I have had some exposure to the early KLH compacts and all sounded "worth listening to". 

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