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Especially
where
space
is
limited
the
GOODMANS
8 inch
HIGH FIDELITY
LOUDSPEAKER
MADE IN ENGLAND
ROCKBAR CORPORATION, Dept LH -2
215 East 37th 5t., New York 16, N. Y.
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Goodmans Axiette.
Name
Address
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My Dealer is
SIR:
It seems that the most often recurring
gripes in your "Letters" column are the
complaints over the poor condition of
genuine vinyl hi -fi disks as received
from that maniac at the record shop
who lets the general public, as well as
those few who are conscious of all the
dangers of careless handling, sample
records freely on the usually poor
equipment available in such places.
Records are the largest single investment
in any home music system, and
the customer is entitled to physically
perfect merchandise.
While in Marseilles, France, recently,
we had the opportunity to browse
in a fairly new record shop where the
precautions for the protection of the
delicate surfaces were simple and almost
foolproof. There the customer
never, never handled the surfaces of
any record until the proprietor had a
quite respectable bunch of francs safely
ensconced in his cash box.
Instead, one of the sales clerks took
the record, placed it on one of six
turntables in back of the counter and
directed us toward one of a like
number of listening booths at the rear
of the store. These booths were equipped
with only the tone and volume
controls, a couple of chairs, and a small
speaker mounted on the wall. There
we were able to relax and listen to the
selections we had made, and decide, as
the different sides were sampled for us,
whether the records were in guild
enough condition to warrant buying.
Installing an entire six -channel extended
range sound system like that
would run into enough money to prevent
its happening in most establishments,
but certainly quite a few of the
larger record shops could afford one
really excellent outfit with the turntable
available only to its sales personnel,
who would present a much simpler
educational problem than the public
at large does.
Having records demonstrated in this
fashion, rather than trusting them to
the not -so- tender mercies of the un-
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