[EricB]

Originally Posted by ferarri

Ya the economy does suck. I live in SF and don't have a car because I am a student and when I went into the audio store, the guy who sold the speakers to me gave me a ride home with my speakers in the middle of the day. He said he was just glad to get out of there because they hardly get any customers now. It was pretty cool actually. He was a really nice guy and we just talked about speakers the whole ride. I don't know how I would've got home with those otherwise haha.

that's just how the audio game has changed. there really isn't no high audio store anymore. the ones that are left are really struggling now.

[ricanflow]

Originally Posted by ferarri

nevermind, I guess I just took it wrong when you said you would've gotten those other ones. sorry

Dont fret, anything can be taken out of context online.

Those speakers look good, i can imagine they sound good too. I actually got mine for recording a guy, it was a pretty good deal.

[Pinscher]

Originally Posted by ricanflow

Dont fret, anything can be taken out of context online.

Those speakers look good, i can imagine they sound good too. I actually got mine for recording a guy, it was a pretty good deal.

Oh nice, that is a pretty good deal. Which ones do you have again? I don't feel like looking at the other thread.

[ricanflow]

Originally Posted by ferarri

Oh nice, that is a pretty good deal. Which ones do you have again? I don't feel like looking at the other thread.

Event Electronics Tuned Reference 6 at Performance Audio

[Oreo]

I want to listen to some SP8's now !

Ferarri, i got to listen to some CL1's at the local audio shop, outstanding ! i must say they were better than i thought they would be, and i allready had high expectations.

It's a shame all these small stores are closing down, the one i visited was struggling. It shouldn't be, it was a brilliant family run shop and they were all very knowledgeable and helped you in every way they could. They had lots and lots of awesome speakers and at pretty good prices. I have no idea why people would prefer to buy from bigger much more inferior shops such as Richersounds :mad:

[Pinscher]

They really surprised me too because of how much smaller they were than the 685 which I had already listened to and were considering.

Ya its sad that the good small shops can't afford to stay afloat in this economy. They always have the most knowledgeable people who actually have a passion for the stuff they sell.

[EricB]

Originally Posted by ferarri

They really surprised me too because of how much smaller they were than the 685 which I had already listened to and were considering.

Ya its sad that the good small shops can't afford to stay afloat in this economy. They always have the most knowledgeable people who actually have a passion for the stuff they sell.

right. but the game has changed. they now sell cheap inferior products marketed by lies and aggressive marketing, so now people think that the cheap stuff is good and buy it. but here's the kicker. they are now are charging a lot of money for that same cheap stuff since everybody bought into the lies and they can turn a nicer profit

[Oreo]

Originally Posted by EricB

right. but the game has changed. they now sell cheap inferior products marketed by lies and aggressive marketing, so now people think that the cheap stuff is good and buy it. but here's the kicker. they are now are charging a lot of money for that same cheap stuff since everybody bought into the lies and they can turn a nicer profit

Who, the small shops sell inferior products ?

[EricB]

Originally Posted by Oreo

Who, the small shops sell inferior products ?

no "they" mean the mass market. all of the small shop are out of business or on their way out of business. nobody goes to them anymore when you can buy some logitech computer speakers and think that you have high end

I was saying that there are companies out there now that are selling cheesy speaker for a lot of money but people believe that they are good speaker. they was this company called digital audio that were selling speaker out of their truck. they look high end. they claimed that the regular price was 3 to 4 grand and they were selling them from 500 to a 1,000 buck. but if you were smart all you had to do was hit the box and the hollow sound was the first clue that the speaker were bull ****.

[Oreo]

Ah yeh that makes more sense. Yeh, it's a shame we live in a world wear people simply dont mind if they have inferior products.. it's slightly worrying.