New York, New York - Audio Stores?????

There is a shop in New York City that has the word "Innovation" in the title, something like, Audio Innovations. There is one in Brooklyn Heights, on the main commercial street in Brooklyn Heights just a couple blocks from the river. There is also one in mid-town Manhattan, I think on the east side. I have been to each of these stores several times and always well treated.

Generally speaking, my experience is like many hobbiests that high end audio shops are on average much less welcoming than almost any other type of shopping experience. I think they get frustrated with people who visit them often and then just buy used on the net, or they imagine that people are doing that and then they get angry.... But these shops were rude before the internet was popular, so perhaps I'm being too generous in making excuses for them.

Art

I've had experiences where dealers decided I was probably going to just use them for demo and then buy on the internet. In every case they were wrong, but, maybe they are just tired of being burned and overly cautious? I AM very active on the internet - much more so than with dealers - but I never use a dealers time unless I am serious about buying from them.

In the mean time, the dealers that treated me this way lost opportunities for sales. Fair enough, that's their choice.

There was one particularly weird case where a local dealer sales rep confided in me that all of their staff treat me badly at that shop because once I borrowed gear from them for demo and then bought it used on the internet instead of buying from them. But I NEVER did that! Freakin weird. They went out of business fairly quickly, so maybe they were just in some kind of final upheavel....

Art

Oh yeah, as for New York City, I've had fine experiences at Innovative and Singer. I can't say about the others.