Best Retailer Youve Done Business With?

Music Direct - great folks and service
Tim at Bradford's in Eugene, OR - one of the finest audio retailers anywhwere
Bob November of McKenzie River Music - guitars and amps but still the finest guitar shop on the planet!

Hungryear,

I agree about Audio Perfection not giving a red cent discount on anything. I was looking at spending tens of thousands on transparent cable and asked what kind of discount they could give for all of that and their answer was.....get this, "we feel all of our stuff is of great value already to not need a discount added on"! I could not believe that!

Thousands upon thousands for cable thats so incredibly marked high that the minute you get it home you would be lucky to get more then 50% of what you paid for it, and they say its a good value already.

The one guy mentioned stereoland instead of audio perfection and I agree. Stereoland has some decent stuff though not near what audio perfection has, but the guys at stereoland like HiFi sound in downtown Mpls are all great and down to earth.

DynamicAudio in Shinjuku and Harajuku (Tokyo, Japan). Very friendly, reasonably knowledgeable, great used stuff (I got most of my stuff there), not a very hard sell.

You are right "chadnliz" however my experience pre-2001 with audio dealers has been frustrating. I do feel guilty when purchasing online instead of paying homage to my local audio dealer. I just do not see the point of visiting my audio locally anymore or even in the LA metro area however I may checkout Gene Rubin audio in Ventura re: turntable.

Splitte
do not feel guilty
it is your money.
Do you really think that a greedy dealer feels the same way when he is trining to push the sell?????
I have exp. with at least ten dealers and from that ten maybe two are OK.
Do the math.
there is 80% chance that you will get screwed.
So when you find a dealer you can trust try to build relationship and whatever you do, do not screw him by buying something for $50 less from another dealer who is just tring to highjack a custumer by the first sweat sell.
It is not worth it
trust me.
Besides they all know each other
so it will come back and hurt you sooner or letter.
Cheers
Mariusz