Speaker placement at dealers

Most dealers are pretty clueless when it comes to this sort of thing. We keep only one pair of speakers in any of our listening rooms at a given time. I can't imagine auditioning speakers any other way, so why should I expect my customers to be less discerning?

Sean - I know of Victor's. He was down here in our part of town actually. We do the same thing basically. We piece together a system on the spot for a customer, being careful not to move those items that need to be warmed up, but keeping only one pair of speakers in the room etc. I actually saw this technique most recently at Holm Audio in Woodridge and was very impressed by it. Didn't think anybody was doing that anymore. Gave me a little bit of hope for the retail end of our industry, which is otherwise in a sad state of affairs.