Why are brick and mortar HiFi dealers so bad?

Thanks, Larry.  I/we were in Chicago last year on a weekend 'speed tour' escaping our 'work encampment' in Lexington KY.

Went to see the Fields Museum, which overrode 'audio interests' since time was short.

Metro Chicago is 'combat traffic'. like most major metros of late.  Met a Ferrari owner in a parking lot, chatted him up....'Love the car...can't drive it here anymore.  Want to buy it?"

(Would love to as well...my license would vaporize in short order.
Would also have to find that winning Lotto tix in that parking lot, blowing up against my leg....)

"Thanks, but no....I'd have the same complaint, with some variables.."

Local roads, more suited to 4WD, for one....*L*

Thinking of The Devils Drop , much closer to Asheville than the Dragons Tail, you can of course scare yourself still via utube.

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tomic, Oh...That roller coaster....*L* (Didn't know it by the 'D.D.' moniker...I'm so 'unhip'....)..
First driven when new to the area, some 15ish yrs. ago...

"Oh, here's this nice shortcut off the Parkway...(she said)...."

Downhill then, with a Pontiac LeMans GT, one stayed busy....

Uphill since...more my cup of 'tainment'...*G*
Different ride as well...

Chatted up a waitress @ Grandfather Mtn. that lives in AVL 'bout 1.5 yrs ago....said she made the drive 'twixt there back/forth in about .5ish hrs. on the Parkwy. in her sedan...

(Forget the make, but 'twastn't a Beemer or the like....a nice, 'normal' sort of ride...)

Thankfully for the tourista, this is occuring in 'off hours'...Flat F'n Flying, no doubt.  Familiarity cedes Restraint....

Apex Everything. *L*

Spring & Summer, we get the bike & car crowds in town....

As well as 'touring' the local pavements, they visit the Biltmore estate to the tune of 1.2 mil yearly...and rising....

Hotels are popping up nearly as fast as the 'niche breweries' which makes for 'twisted tourista'.  Makes for 'interesting street moves' on their part....'cardiac arrest lane changes', mid-road pauses, left turns prohibited but done (badly) anyway...

Better to be in a thriving small city, though...;)

...but still no audio shops....

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