The Upper Ear was bad experience for me. When I worked their they had a perverse distane for audiophiles, refering to them in a derogatory manner as "tweeks". I was the odd man out being the only real audiophile there.(I owned ARC gear at the time and had owned 3 pair of Magnepalnars)
They sold a very weird mix of stuff. Cheap Sony and Polk crap, Mark Levenson, Mac, Klipsch, Magnepan(which none of the other sales people seemed to like),Tandberg, B&W, Oracle. They had a system which consisted of Levenson class A ML 2's sitting on top of a pair of Big K horns fed by a Sony CDP 101 that they thought was real cool.It sounded dreadful!
You had to attend the Dale Carnagie sales training(brain washing)courses at your own expense.I sold the only pair of B&W 801's they had ever sold at the time. They had no idea how to make a TT sound worth a damn. They loved to put on a big Sigfried and Roy style show with all of their Hp test equiptment to set up a table but didn't even know what VTA was! . I got fired after voiceing the opinion that the Sony CDP 101 sounded like crap(seems they all bought one). I will not shead a tear for their demise!
