Enough is Enough


I've been looking at changing my DAC. I was considering Lampizator, Playback Designs, and Ideon. Recently a dealer basically told me(with the exception of my subwoofer and music server) my system sucks. He went on to say, I should sell my amps, preamp, DAC, speakers, and start all over! I've owned several different speakers, amplifiers, and DACs. I've attended shows and several different dealers show rooms. In fact, I directly compared one of the amplifiers the dealer recommended to a Rowland 625 S2 amplifier and preferred the 625 S2. I didn't build my system in a vacuum. I determined what I wanted to spend, listened and purchase what I preferred. I've been in sales and submit it would have been better to recommend a DAC that would improve my system. So now I say, maybe enough is enough; because no matter what I have some dealer will tell me it's crap and I have to start over. 

ricred1

My take: two-fold on your dealer salesman’s uber-crass and uber-insulting response,

(1) I would only have one thing to say your dealer salesman: it is the slang profane pejorative embodied in GENESIS 9:7.

(2) Furthermore, I would not even call him the slang term for a protologist’s subject matter, because  an a****le actually serves a useful function .

"So now I say, maybe enough is enough; because no matter what I have some poster will tell me it's crap and I have to start over. "  

Nothing to see here.  Move along.  (Jedi)

Sounds more like a shady used car dealer. Of course he said your system is crap and how convenient he just happens to sell stuff that will make it the best system ever. As others have said, you'd do well to find a different stereo business to deal with.

Dealers will always route you to something they sell. It isn’t even that dishonest, IMHO, call it a grey area. So basicly, you have to pretty much ignore whatever a dealer says. I know some people have dealers they trust. Still those dealers cannot be perfectly objective.

Owners can’t be fully trusted either. they are going to have confirmation bias toward whatever they spent much money on. and they often just repeat what the dealer told them.

Reviewers never give a bad review. they are playing the game.

Best bet is to: 1. understand the technology behind it to figure out what is likely to sound better. 2. listen with your own ears. A physics degee helps with item 1.

OP:  if you're in socal, stop by and listen to my Lampi.  I haven't gotten around to selling DAVE yet so we could do an A/B.

Jerry