There is an interesting editorial in HiFi+ this month. It will be in the US next month. It discusses the demise if high end dealers. What Alan Sircom says, is that whatever else you lose, it is set up that is critical. You can't gaurantee that a high end dealer knows what he is doing. His job though, is to put together components that have synergy and help set them up, with accessories, room treatment and speaker placement, that gives you some chance of hearing what theystem is capable of.
Sircom suggests there is no other easy source for this sort of knowledge. Reading books, using members of a HiFi society, may be a substitute, but not a complete one, for an experienced high end dealer.
Sircom suggests there is no other easy source for this sort of knowledge. Reading books, using members of a HiFi society, may be a substitute, but not a complete one, for an experienced high end dealer.