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whateverjames · 09-08-2002, 10:49 PM

does anyone know of any online stores to buy home audio speakers and recievers? if so, have you bought from these stores and was the price and service good? so far, i'm thinking of buying from crutchfield because bestbuy.com charges sales tax (bastards).

i'm looking for a kenwood 6.1 ch ready reciever, bose surrounds and a bose center channel.

WaKeMaN · 09-09-2002, 11:35 AM

Crutchfield is a great company.  I've bought thousands of dollars worth of car and home a/v gear from them.  If you have any kind of problem with setup or anything, you can give them a call for as long as you own the stuff.  I thought I knew a lot about car and home a/v... these people are nuts...

Prices are reasonable and delivery is quick.  Plus returns are easy if necessary.  Plus they have a caliber of product that just isn't available at Best Buy.  

Sorry if I sound like I work for them... but everything I said is the truth.   <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

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240 2NR · 09-11-2002, 01:38 PM

Yikes, stay away from Bose.  While not a bad product, they charge about 3 times what I would consider their products to be worth.  If you spend any time looking up audio information you will find that they are the only (well the only one I've found so far) company that does not publish any technical specs for their speakers and rather fill the pages with marketing hype about how great they are and how cool the accoustimass system was 15yrs ago when it came out.  For $1000+, I don't want paper drivers and foam surrounds.

My advice is go to some higher end shops in town if you plan to drop that much money.  From personal experience, my recomendation for affordable hometheater is a canadian speaker company called Paradigm (I also like NHT, B&W, Mission, and Tannoy).  Also, www.audioreview.com is a good place to find reviews of equipment you're thinking about and most people include the purchase price and where they got it from.

Not sure if they still have them, but I got some really good deals on mission speakers from ubid two years ago.

09-08-2002, 10:49 PM	#1
whateverjames Nissanaholic! Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: St. Louis Age: 41 Posts: 2,263 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	does anyone know of any online stores to buy home audio speakers and recievers? if so, have you bought from these stores and was the price and service good? so far, i'm thinking of buying from crutchfield because bestbuy.com charges sales tax (bastards). i'm looking for a kenwood 6.1 ch ready reciever, bose surrounds and a bose center channel. __________________ 02 Blazer X - 90 240SX w/SR oh noes

09-09-2002, 11:35 AM	#2
WaKeMaN Leaky Injector Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Massachusetts Age: 40 Posts: 104 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Crutchfield is a great company.  I've bought thousands of dollars worth of car and home a/v gear from them.  If you have any kind of problem with setup or anything, you can give them a call for as long as you own the stuff.  I thought I knew a lot about car and home a/v... these people are nuts... Prices are reasonable and delivery is quick.  Plus returns are easy if necessary.  Plus they have a caliber of product that just isn't available at Best Buy.   Sorry if I sound like I work for them... but everything I said is the truth.   <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> __________________ Previous Car: 1994 Z28 Current Car: 1997 240SX SE 5sp (OBX FSTB, N1 Dual, pondering Greddy Turbo Kit...) I'm just another one of the ever growing list of V8 defectors.

09-11-2002, 01:38 PM	#3
240 2NR Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Denver Posts: 1,131 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Yikes, stay away from Bose.  While not a bad product, they charge about 3 times what I would consider their products to be worth.  If you spend any time looking up audio information you will find that they are the only (well the only one I've found so far) company that does not publish any technical specs for their speakers and rather fill the pages with marketing hype about how great they are and how cool the accoustimass system was 15yrs ago when it came out.  For $1000+, I don't want paper drivers and foam surrounds. My advice is go to some higher end shops in town if you plan to drop that much money.  From personal experience, my recomendation for affordable hometheater is a canadian speaker company called Paradigm (I also like NHT, B&W, Mission, and Tannoy).  Also, www.audioreview.com is a good place to find reviews of equipment you're thinking about and most people include the purchase price and where they got it from. Not sure if they still have them, but I got some really good deals on mission speakers from ubid two years ago. __________________ Steve 93 240sx FB currently very clean and for sale

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