There use to be a store in Metairie, LA suburb of new orleans, Do any of you know if these guys moved, are still around?, they use to sale Krell in the late 90s, I believe Huricane Katrina could have wiped them out?, any insight on this dealer, I would be grateful. |
@ Acresverde, Yes!, That is the gentleman that owned the store in Metairie, Jay Valentino, man, He was really young ole chap back in the late 90s, I use to give seminaires at his store on resonance tunning, so he moved to Baton Rouge, mmm, I suppose Hurricane Katrina was enough for him, and everyone else, The store was called Audio resource, when you said the name, it hit the bell in my old head,LOL!, that's the store for sure, Hey man, Thankyou, I may give him a ring soon and supprise Jay, He would fall out of his chair, nobody has heard from me in a very long time. |
wow!, Dieseldude, I cannot believe you actually have owned some of those crigler speakers, hell yeah post some pics, I have not seen any of them speakers in many years! |
Well, looking at what at what wilson audio has to offer, I suppose I will have to go to Atlanta,Ga from Mobile,Al, In the 90s, Jay Valentino offered some choices I enjoyed, to bad for Jay, here on the gulf coast, they all believe $300.00 8ft speaker cables is great on something like Rotel, Really, anyway, I hate to hear that jay closed the doors of his store, never got to go to the one in BatonRouge, just the one in Metairie,LA cheers. |
I had a Rotel amp with Tara Labs Decade interconnects and speaker cables, LOL!, over 20 years ago, my has time flew, Now days I have a Modded krell 700cx amp renewed and done recently by krell, with Tara Labs Zero Gold interconnects and Omega Gold speaker cables, that's what I am talking about, here on the gulf coast, They believe $300.00 speaker cables are good enough, and that a top model stereo amp from Rotel is good enough, Jay, years ago carried Krell and many other good names of the industry, this was when he was in Metairie, La of course!, I never have bought local in Mobile,Al other than the Rotel and the Decade cables ever. |
Hi Jafant, Here in Mobile, there is a store called look and listen, sadly, they did make a mad attempt to go real high-end audio, they offered some world class name brands, get this, no one bought nothing!, They had to go back to entry level audio to stay in bussiness, I was in owe over the fact that I must be alone here in this ever costly hobby, The crazy thing is that the rich here will spend thousands up on thousands of dollars on a system to the point of costing $50,000.00 and more on junk audio and wonder why their system does not sound good at all compaired to what most of us do, not one thing in the system cost over $3,000.00 a piece, I do not get it, or understand why, automated lighting, speakers in the ceiling and walls, cables they believe are the best that cost only $300.00 for 8ft speaker cables, etc... you get the picture?, look and listen may have one or two brands worth getting now after the dust settled, cheers. |
Jafant, Did you ever see or hear Jeff crigler's invention home speakers?, he made some money selling the rights and whole deal to a company that I cannot remember? I agree, he is a poor bussiness man!, I'm saying he had at the store some profound brands not to long ago and could not sale them, Is it mobile?, likly!, he's back to entry level, however, some how he is carrying Vandersteen speakers? |
Jafant, man, you have been gone a minute, I believe Fidler hi-fi went out of bussiness many years ago, he retired, where is the mbl dealer? |
Jafant, Hi, I have a Brand new completly refurbished and modded Krell 700 cx amp that I bought at sound ideas through E-bay that is in Gainsville,FL, Krell just did the whole deal to my amp, the complete modds and renewl recently, I have a pair of JBL L-7 vintage 4-way Bi-amp 91 sensativity 6ohm speakers I bought from an individual here in mobile, I currently just bought another Vincent tube/solid state hybred cd-s7 cd-player from audio advisor that is better Than the Ayon cd-2s player I got rid of, the spinner is going to go on a second system I will build later when I get a world class cd spinner for main system, I have a pair of Tara Labs Zero Gold analog interconnects with HFX grounding station I bought here used on audiogon from Hanson Audio in Ohio, Then I got a pair of Tara Labs Omega Gold 6ft speaker cables I bought direct from Tara Labs, and I have The Tara Labs Omega 10" jumpers for bi-amping direct from Tara Labs, And I also have in the closet ready for second system, bought directly from Tara Labs, The one interconnect and the one 6ft speaker cables, I run my digital direct to my amp, I also Have the Tara Labs Cobalt power cord with oyaide terminations I bought used here on audiogon on the cd-player, I'm in the proccess of doing much more, oh, I have the still points ss footers and Poly crystal footers I bought used here on audiogon, cheers. |
can you create a link? most people can here on the thread, just put the pics on the link. |
Jafant, Thankyou for the kind words, on the info, no problem, E-mail me or post, cheers. |
Jafant, to tell you the truth here, my original different system got stole by by second wife that I am no longer with, and sold why I was out of town in 2006, I have had to start from scratch, nothing to sale to up-grade, nothing to trade in or anything like that, so it's been a very long road with many un-heard of difficulties!, I have been building this system I have now for two years with many set backs, at this rate, It may take a total of 5 years to be done, very sad, but true, an example of what I am saying is, I am on my 4th digital player in two years, only one player was bought used, all the others were new, including the one I have now. |
Jafant, Please list your system for me here, we both live in Bama, I would like to become your friend if possible, you appear to be a gentleman and a seasoned audiophile to say the least. |
very nice Jafant, I hope you do not mind with future questions about equipment that I would like to know about?, cheers. |
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