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Hey RICH Audiophiles

 Why don't one of you incredibly wealthy audiophiles whose systems I drool over every day start an Audiophile Rental business?
 Imagine how easy to simply rent a set of speakers or amp for a nominal fee so us POOR enthusiasts could demo it in our own home/system without restocking fees or massive depreciation when reselling..No more sitting in traffic,wasting gas & polluting the environment running from dealer to dealer only to be greeting by horrible listening conditions that give you ABSOLUTELY no idea how a piece of gear will actually sound in your own listening room...
freediver
invictus005
597 posts
 
Rich people have better things to do than to provide rental service to some broke audiophiles.
glupson
1,794 posts
 
It seems that most would not be willing to rent some equipment to others. How many would welcome someone to come over and hear their equipment?
larryi
1,972 posts
 
Are you talking about a very specialized Airbnb?  Someone rent's out a place that has a fine system that is available for use.  That would be the only way top gear can be reasonably auditioned because such gear must be properly integrated into a system and that system must be fine tuned to the particular room, something that can take many months to accomplish.  Yeah, the only problem is that a reasonable price would be many thousands per day to rent a place housing such a system.
ebm
5,165 posts
 
I will lend my set up to poor people asap.
wolf_garcia
4,650 posts
 
I've loved 911s for years, still do, and then drove a Cayman GT4. One of the great bargains in the "go fast" car world, uses a 911 motor in a mid engine little car, and gets everything right. Lower cost high end audio gear takes a while to assemble, but rewards you anyway...buy some used things, and ignore most advice until you check things out for yourself as there is a lot of nonsense hurled around here.
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