I don't frequent this forum but I though this would be a good place to post an experience I had.
About 6 months ago I visited a "Home Theater" store. I don't consider myself an expert in any ways, but these guys entire job is dealing with high end HT gear and they were not up to the level I had expected. Ill give you some examples.
I was trying to demo a nice elite pioneer rptv. The first issue was the lack of any decent test material. I actually had to go into my car and grab the recently purchase terminator dvd, which is not very good I may add. The image was SO badly calibrated I thought someone must have reset it to defaults or that they never adjusted it. I started to try to make some improvements and the guy told me not to change the settings. I was shocked and I asked why. He said the image had been adjusted by one of the other guys using test material. I tried to show him the errors in color and brightness and he pretty much had the attitude that I was some loser spouting technical terms I had no understanding of. Finally I convinced him that I would write down the settings and change them back when I was done. RIIIGGHTT
Unfortunately the room they were using to demo the display devices was not large enough. What i mean is that for all the sets they were selling (50+ inches) you were sitting too close. The room was long and narrow, but had the seating and view position on the short portion duhhh. There were also boxes of audio equipment stacked all over so I was distracted the entire time.
I can understand what the problem with these guys are now. They are strictly Audio Elitists. You would not believe the resources they dedicatd to audio equipment. It really gave it away when most of what I saw was all two channel. They had a dedicated room just for burning in speakers! They would let the speakers play at high volume for days before installing it in a persons home. I had never seen this type of equipment up close. Mono block amps that were so nice it was like a piece of art. Polished metal, glowing orange tubes, analog needles displaying all the vitals. Speaker cables that looked as if they were made by hand by some former watch maker. Serious stuff.
I was no dealing with another sales guy. I let him know that I didnt have plans to purchase anything but was curious. He told me all about these crazy installs they did, like for the ceo of all those famous dot coms. Thousands of amps per channel into speakers that separately cost 5 times the value of my car
. Even about celebrities had been serviced by them. The demos he had sounded like nothing I had heard before. One room was so audically perfect (is that a word) I had goose bumps while listening.
For this place to label themselves as home theater really bugs me. Video is a very important if not the most important part of HT. For them to be so lopsided bugged me but either way I have never shopped in that place since.
About 6 months ago I visited a "Home Theater" store. I don't consider myself an expert in any ways, but these guys entire job is dealing with high end HT gear and they were not up to the level I had expected. Ill give you some examples.
I was trying to demo a nice elite pioneer rptv. The first issue was the lack of any decent test material. I actually had to go into my car and grab the recently purchase terminator dvd, which is not very good I may add. The image was SO badly calibrated I thought someone must have reset it to defaults or that they never adjusted it. I started to try to make some improvements and the guy told me not to change the settings. I was shocked and I asked why. He said the image had been adjusted by one of the other guys using test material. I tried to show him the errors in color and brightness and he pretty much had the attitude that I was some loser spouting technical terms I had no understanding of. Finally I convinced him that I would write down the settings and change them back when I was done. RIIIGGHTT
Unfortunately the room they were using to demo the display devices was not large enough. What i mean is that for all the sets they were selling (50+ inches) you were sitting too close. The room was long and narrow, but had the seating and view position on the short portion duhhh. There were also boxes of audio equipment stacked all over so I was distracted the entire time.
I can understand what the problem with these guys are now. They are strictly Audio Elitists. You would not believe the resources they dedicatd to audio equipment. It really gave it away when most of what I saw was all two channel. They had a dedicated room just for burning in speakers! They would let the speakers play at high volume for days before installing it in a persons home. I had never seen this type of equipment up close. Mono block amps that were so nice it was like a piece of art. Polished metal, glowing orange tubes, analog needles displaying all the vitals. Speaker cables that looked as if they were made by hand by some former watch maker. Serious stuff.
I was no dealing with another sales guy. I let him know that I didnt have plans to purchase anything but was curious. He told me all about these crazy installs they did, like for the ceo of all those famous dot coms. Thousands of amps per channel into speakers that separately cost 5 times the value of my car
For this place to label themselves as home theater really bugs me. Video is a very important if not the most important part of HT. For them to be so lopsided bugged me but either way I have never shopped in that place since.