Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store

I was looking for speakers to go along with my MA6600. I listened to several pairs before settling on 2 pairs at a SF mac store. I ended up buying another brand. I felt the salesperson was so good and honest I went and overpaid on a MC452 from them.
I was trying to decide between a ss or tube pre and store a only had a demo, store b (where I bought the 6600)had one on order due in a week. Two weeks went bye and I was told the one on order was spoken for and did I want the demo when It came back in. I called store A and no stock. Drove to the SanJose dealer and got a new pre at demo pricing. 10 days later the store b called and said the demo was back in stock. The sales person had a fit when I told him I drove 30 mi and bought a new one. I did not want to buy from the Magnolia chain. I try to buy locally when I can, which is difficult here on the West Coast.

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Discussing "who" vs. "whom," although often a question not lacking in difficulty, seems less likely to perturb domestic tranquility than discussing the other tangent this thread went off on. So I'll mention that I believe Courant is correct, and it should be "whom."

The spelling and grammar checker of Microsoft Word in Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 does not flag an error for either "who" or "whom." But using the "he vs. him" trick described at the end of this article, one would say (albeit a bit clumsily) "for him English is not his first language," not "for he English is not his first language," and therefore "whom" would be correct.

Best regards,
-- Al

According to Ernest Hemingway, it's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, more importantly, does the sound of that tolling bell sound better via tubes or solid state ?

Tubes, absolutely! Cryo'd brass is best; of course.

Re who/whom: I am glad the question became a diversion from "the other" topic. While I may be willing to concede since I have never known Al to be factually incorrect about anything, I still think that, at the very least, a case can be made for either. We could dig a little deeper and explore things like the exceptions to the "rules" when the word in question is either the object or the subject of the preposition, but just like in the debates about the audibility of tweaks, I actually enjoy and prefer to leave room for a bit of ambiguity and mystery. BTW, my Microsoft Word program does, in fact, flag an error for "whom". :-)

Speaking of bells and a bit of trivia that some may find interesting: when real church bells became a thing of the past due to the use of electronic amplified bell sounds as is common today, some of the now out of work Italian bell makers were hired by the Selmer (France) musical instrument company to make the bells for their premium line of saxophones. Most of the great players use(d) these instruments.

Regards.