Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home

@ghdprentice - I too have a bike with a huge wald basket I grocery shop with weekly : ) - And I love track driving and cars too! Just not as much as cycling and listening to music, as I suspect is the same for almost all of us : )

@tomic601 - thanks so much for your kind words 😉

@lalitk - but I did find that the von langa, like almost every other speaker I’ve heard, loses out to the nenuphar over solo piano, nothing comes close to those nens on solo piano 😔 - have you had experience with any other smallish field coil driven speakers that excel with that? 

I've never encountered a dealer that would let me audition stuff at home, but I've been set with my gear for decades now, maybe things have changed.

Decades? Yup. That makes sense

How about this: Tell the dealer your will pay him to come to your home and look at your set up your other components and cables and placement and music you listen to and at what volume. Ask him to recommend a speaker for you. 

@sounds_real_audio 

Your comment reminds me of Truman Capote's comment about the work of Jack Kerouac: “That's not writing, that's typing.”