Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store

I have not had access to a dealer in almost 40 years. The nearest one is a hundred miles away and I'm not certain they are still in business. In the 1960s I had three dealers in a community of one fourth the size of my present community.

The internet has all but killed local audio dealers. It is a very hard task to be one now days. Audio shows have somewhat replaced dealer and most repairs entail FedEx shipping.

I suspect that the future will see all local dealers of everything other than groceries and restaurants will vanish and chain stores for everything will replace them.

You sure fooled me that you were happy read your own words... Glad you found it JohnnyR
"""02-17-11: Ticten
I own a Primare I21 married to a pair of Proac Reference 8 Signatures. I can tell you with full conviction that the amp is a fantastic product with exceptional resolution, transparency and tonal quality. I am so happy to find this amp as I stopped searching and just enjoying my music collection. It is also amazing to realize that whether you listen to Alice in Chains or Patricia Barber or Mozart, the listening experience is always rewarding and revealing. I think a lot of people point out that the sound is on the polite side but I actually associate the politeness with a sound stage that is not thrown on your face like a cheap amp would do. Imagine a sound which is very transparent, airy and resonating, with lots of depth and deep base when it is called for. That is Primare.
It is in fact not surprising that BOTH Primare and Proac are not easy to find on Audiogon.
Ticten (Threads | Answers | This Thread)"""

Indeed. That's first time I hear bad things about Primere amps.

I found a great place where they are very helpful and have some really nice gear on display....Audio Visual Therapy of Nashua NH....great place , nice people and best of all no tax... I picked up an Anthem MRX 510 for my father from them and they were awesome to deal with and I'll definitely visit them first the next time I buy something

The guys at Spearit Sound in Northhampton MA have always treated me great too.

I used to visit Natural Sound of Framingham MA but I don't trust them. They burnt me on more than one occasion and are real snobs unless they smell $10k in your pocket. The last thing I bought from them was a Velodyne wireless sub kit. They charged me $200 when you can buy it direct through Velodyne at the MSRP of $159 with free shipping... They said "oh,we thought it was $199" when I confronted them and laughed it off, although I did not think it was funny at all...not only that they let it sit in their warehouse for almost three weeks without calling me. After contacting them several times I finally got someone to look into it...and they somehow though it was funny that my item that I had already paid for was put into their stock. That really annoyed me because I was putting my system back together after a flood, I had gone 10 months with my gear packed up.

I'm all for buying locally but why when that's the kind of service you get. They also sold me a used tube, how do I know it was used? Someone had hand written "V2" on the tube...sure enough it was noisy, and you guessed it they would not accept blame or replace it...scumbags

That's OK because after that I purchased an NAD M51 dac, Revel speakers, REL sub and Magnum Dynalab MD102 , all products that they carried......

STAY AWAY

Audio Visual Therapy in Nashua is a great place. John Rein and crew are top notch. I have been a customer since John was at Ensemble. It all started with a search for a used turntable. John treated me the same way on that $250 TT as if I was spending $25,000 on a system ( which I ended up doing within a year). By way of reference, John and AVT just made the cover of CEPro, one of the industry's trade magazines.