Who has bought a reasonably expensive item completely unheard, no demo, not at a friends house, nothing, but bought because it was recommended or you read a review or trusted your dealer or were just too busy etc etc
I bought an Audio Note Arm 2/2 for my Lenco on a dealer recommendation. I was also interested in comparing to an SME but the dealer would have needed to buy one in especially for me. I trusted the dealer as I had dealt with him a lot and didn’t want him to go to extra cost. I asked his opinion of the two arms and bought the Audio Note. But it didn’t seem a risky prospect as it was a choice of two stellar products.
I did also recently buy an Audio Research D130 on eBay never having ever heard an ARC S/S power amp and having now compared it to others it was a lucky purchase.
But I demoed the hell out of streamer DACs recently even though they sound the same (not) because I was spending £2000 and it could have sounded rubbish; but actually none were rubbish just very different.
I bought an Audio Note Arm 2/2 for my Lenco on a dealer recommendation. I was also interested in comparing to an SME but the dealer would have needed to buy one in especially for me. I trusted the dealer as I had dealt with him a lot and didn’t want him to go to extra cost. I asked his opinion of the two arms and bought the Audio Note. But it didn’t seem a risky prospect as it was a choice of two stellar products.
I did also recently buy an Audio Research D130 on eBay never having ever heard an ARC S/S power amp and having now compared it to others it was a lucky purchase.
But I demoed the hell out of streamer DACs recently even though they sound the same (not) because I was spending £2000 and it could have sounded rubbish; but actually none were rubbish just very different.
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