McIntosh ‘Dealer Showcase’ Highlights Top Installers

Hey Robert… Hope all is well.

Question: Do you think a pair of McIntosh MC2KW mono blocks will bring out the best from my Bose 791 in-ceiling speakers?

Robert is getting all beat up by this guy. Pretty entertaining. But props to Robert to staying professional through it all.

I agree. Robert is a true professional. All I’m trying to do is bring some, “Fun,” back into this business.

In the, “Good ‘Ol Days,” we all had a great time because we got paid for playing with toys and busting manufacturer’s chops when they came out with a real loser. To all veterans out there, who didn’t have fun trying to sell these components with a straight face:

ADC ACCUTRACK TURNTABLES that were demoed in a big plastic bubble that only worked with ADC’s demo LP that had a 1/4 inch gap between each song.

TICE CLOCKS that sold for $300.00 and were actually $21.00 Radio Shack clock radios.
SHARP RT-3388A CASSETTE DECKS that were designed to find songs and play them in the order you wanted… providing there was a 10 second gap of blank tape between selections.

DCM TIME WINDOW SPEAKERS that were made out of styrofoam meat packing bases.

HEAVY WATER INTERCONNECT CABLES that sold for thousands of dollars because it was very difficult to get water that was used to cool down nuclear reactors.

BIC T2 & T3 3 SPEED CASSETTE DECKS that allowed you to put 90 minutes of music on a 60 minute cassette at the slow speed, and rival the signal to noise ratio of reel to reel recorders. The only problem was, you couldn’t play them back in anything else.

ADC SOUNDSHAPER 20 POSITION REMOTE CONTROL GRAPHIC EQUALIZERS that if you programmed 2 opposite bell curves on each side of the EQ, then put them face down on the carpet, they would walk across the sound room floor.

COMEBACK DOTS that sold for hundreds of dollars designed to reduce resonance on speaker enclosures… They were 59 cent Playdoh “Fun Tacks.”

NACAMICHI DRAGON AUTO REVERSE CASSETTE DECKS that actually physically turned the cassette over within the plastic front bubble cover so as not to screw up the head azimuth. (which were made by Sony)

SANYO “B-CORD” VCR’S that loaded their proprietary video cassettes like an 8-Track player for only $500.00 to rival JVC VHS & Sony Betamax players.

RCA CAPACITANCE LASER DISC PLAYERS that used a stylus to play back the disc once you inserted the entire cover and disc into the machine’s slot. Pioneer was really concerned… Not to mention, how many times could you watch “Smokey & The Bandit,” & “Star Trek The Motion Picture.” 

My point is that rookies have never experienced this fun, and some veterans have forgotten the “Fun Factor,” in this this business. Everyone is too concerned over “Who Owns The Code,” and trying to justify over priced crap to their clients.

Relax guys… we may not be screwing interns in our secret offices, but we are an extension of the entertainment business. Does the economy suck right now? Absolutely. This is still no excuse not to have some fun, bust some chops, and not take it personally.

Personally, I’m spending the day replacing my Honda’s horn with a pair of Klipsch tweeters so the deer won’t run in front of my car.