Being talked down to by my local HiFi store and a story to go with it.
So, I’ve got my “buddy” who works at my only local HiFi store, who I go and talk with and listen to gear when I can, so that’s what I did. I told him about my recent purchase of my Tekton Pendragons only to hear, “Dude! Why didn’t ya call me or come see me first?! You know I studied speaker design”. What the last part of that meant, I don’t know and don’t care. I just simply told him “Because you guys don’t carry Tekton. No one does except for Tekton”. I told him how I loved the speakers and that they worked perfectly in my system. He just said ok, accepted it and we moved on. Then about 15-20 min go by and he said something like “You know you don’t need a million tweeters to sound good.” Then I was starting to get irritated. I said I know that and what’s that got to do with anything? My speakers don’t have “a million tweeters. Some Tektons do, but I’m sure there’s a well thought out reason for it”.
We then went to the front of the store where the computer is, cuz he wanted to look em up. Then the owner came over, looked at the screen, and said, “Oh, Tekton, the new Bose of this year”.
I was obviously not only very irritated at this point but just thinking. What? You’ve gotta be kidding me. Really?! I asked him if he’d ever heard a pair, and he said “No”. Than how can you say that about them? “I just know speakers” he says.
I just laughed and called him an ignorant a&&hole, and that he’d just lost a long time customer, and that the only reason he didn’t like Tekton is because he wasn’t able to carry the line, and that the only room I ever look at in your store is the one with the used stuff in it.
So, I’ve got my “buddy” who works at my only local HiFi store, who I go and talk with and listen to gear when I can, so that’s what I did. I told him about my recent purchase of my Tekton Pendragons only to hear, “Dude! Why didn’t ya call me or come see me first?! You know I studied speaker design”. What the last part of that meant, I don’t know and don’t care. I just simply told him “Because you guys don’t carry Tekton. No one does except for Tekton”. I told him how I loved the speakers and that they worked perfectly in my system. He just said ok, accepted it and we moved on. Then about 15-20 min go by and he said something like “You know you don’t need a million tweeters to sound good.” Then I was starting to get irritated. I said I know that and what’s that got to do with anything? My speakers don’t have “a million tweeters. Some Tektons do, but I’m sure there’s a well thought out reason for it”.
We then went to the front of the store where the computer is, cuz he wanted to look em up. Then the owner came over, looked at the screen, and said, “Oh, Tekton, the new Bose of this year”.
I was obviously not only very irritated at this point but just thinking. What? You’ve gotta be kidding me. Really?! I asked him if he’d ever heard a pair, and he said “No”. Than how can you say that about them? “I just know speakers” he says.
I just laughed and called him an ignorant a&&hole, and that he’d just lost a long time customer, and that the only reason he didn’t like Tekton is because he wasn’t able to carry the line, and that the only room I ever look at in your store is the one with the used stuff in it.