Dealers hijacking the discussions

Audiotroy:
I am not going to debate with you about the thrust of the OP's inquiry which anyone can view and judge your conduct therein. Nor will I repeat what I said above that you also misread.
Last, I am not one who feels that there are good dealers who are my friends vs bad dealers here on Audiogon. You can look at my history. I have never said a word in any forum to anyone in the audio trade (except words of occasional thanks and agreement with manufacturers, manufacturer reps, dealers, audio magazine writers and others) except for the ever speaking, ever selling Audiotroy of Audio Doctor who sells from his home the best gear in the world and who knows more than the other dealers in the area (who, unlike him are only out to make a buck) about all things audio and who will take or create any opportunity to push the worlds greatest speakers, the only speakers to ever garner praise from audio critics,--the mighty beryllium (best substance for drivers ever made bar none) Paradigm Personas even when no one is asking or wants to hear.

Svery the entire audioshark forum is all about products he sells in almost every forum post, you got to be kidding, the reason he started Audioshark, look at his products and look at the forum posts you will see plenty of mentions you will also see plenty of news posts conveniently about his products. 

As per Gpgr4blu, you take everything I have ever said way out of proportion. As per the reputation of many New York dealers read some of the many posts written about such subjects on these forums, and I have witnessed many of these same experiences that customers have.

The fact that "you are freinds with many of these dealers"  and are in no way our friend, makes you incredibily biased and therefore hardly an honest mirror to our bad in your mind behavior. 

Many of today's best loudspeakers Magico, Rockport, Focal, B&W, all use Beryillium drivers or diamond coated Beryillium drivers, so your logic is hardly unbiased. 

I don't know about you but Magico, Rockport, Focal, and B&W are all very highly rated companies whose products are all considered state of the art what you like has to do with your tastes as well as your bias.

I think if you ask most of the people here they would agree that with any of those forementoned products setup is crucial. 

Your lack of objectivity and negativity driected to us is unconcionable and a complete turn off to many of the people that find our posts to be helpful.

And again, what is your professional background again? 

Grgr4blu, also as your selling out of his home, nasty crack, we have a wider product selection then most of the New York dealers, go check out our video and you will see more unique gear on display, then almost anywhere in this part of the country.

Our older video shot 1.5 year ago, does not show the T+A audio gear, the Light Harmonic Davinci, the Aqua Hifi Forumula, ATC speakers, Legacy speakers, Baetis music servers,Micromega M100, NAD M32, plus a lot more gear.

So look at pictures of our shop vs your buddies shop do you want to know why we are quite knoweledable look at our store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPIn3pEmI4

and lastly you who are turned off by my "salesmanship" have never been to my store and have never worked with me so you have NO DIRECT experience with me nor have heard systems at my store you have only heard my show setups.

So how much do you reallly know, if you had worked with me, tried some of my suggestions, and I was not able to make your system dramatically better or heard my store setups then maybe you would have a chance to be considered a fair and unbiased voice.

And to the gentleman who believes that you should shun dealers that promote their products, the reason that most dealers have the products they sell is because they believe them to be better, hence they want to sell those products.

Our store sells many great brands whether a BAT, a Vac, a Manly Labs, or CJ sounds as good or better than an ARC of Lamm or whatever tube amp that an OP may be talking about, it should not be considered a total faux pau to mention any of the competiting product, if a dealer talks about a product that may be exactly what the OP is looking for that should be considerd a good thing and the likely hood that the OP would or could find the recommendation to be a good thing and they would then seek out their local dealer to listen to said producte. 

This hostitlity towards dealers is just silly as most dealers can be a great source of knowledge and have a tremendous amount of experience.

Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ

I was pretty much in favor of dealer and manufacturer participation (within limits), but the last part of this thread has me reconsidering.

audiotroy - one of my childhood friend’s mother used to say, "The more you stir sh*t, the more it smells."

Dave

wow dlcokrum, that is really kind of nasty. We are attacked time and time again by a man who is friends with other dealers yet loves to slander mine as he is not a friend, and states that he doesn't like me or my staff, is that being unbiased and neutral and he makes ridiculous claims against my products and a few of you think that is okay. 

Grgr4blu's attacks lead to rebuttals which cause this "hijacking" as we are forced to rebutt his claims.

You can say you don't like the sound of the Paradigms but at this point it is impossible to deny they are a contenter aganst Magico, Wilson, Rockport, etc, what you like is a different matter. 

Are they the best speakers on Earth no they are not, and I have never said that, what I have said is that they are a tremendous value for what they do and offer for the price. 

I make the last post not as a boastful thing, but how do you know anything? You test. If Dealer A has a limited selection how does he know how good many other brands are they he doesn't sell?

We sell most of the best digital products such as Arunder, Lumin, Naim, Innious, and others. Do we sell all on the market no we don't it isn't possible but how many dealers sell all of those brands?

We are proud of our store and our wide selection of great products that we sell. 

Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ