From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A resolution of a question I asked weeks ago, about
 car stereo
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:09:12 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

  What sort of car do you have?

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:22:39 -0400
  mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Well, no one had any suggestions, so I had to google.
>Found four or five in
> the Silver Spring area. I looked at the highest rated
>one, read
> "uncompromising commitment to somethingorther sound",
>and wrote that one off,
> figuring they were interested in selling me a $1000
>sound system, subwoofers,
> just the thing to entertain everyone at the traffic
>light for a block around.
>
> Then I looked at the second rated one, DSP. They seemed
>reasonable. I called,
> and talked to the guy... and the ballpark he quoted me
>was reasonable. Made an
> appt for this past Sat.
>
> He did *not* try to sell me the $600 or $800 one. He
>*listened* to what I
> wanted, and offered me one for $100. I mentioned maybe
>sticking in a USB key
> and just playing what was on it, and we went up Big
>Bucks... to $110.
>
> Of course, installation, and the surround to replace the
>huge thing that was
> in the dash more than doubled it, but I was expecting
>that. And it's what I
> wanted (well, the controls are complicated, but....)
>
> I'm so old, when I was a kid, and even some as a young
>man, I used to see
> signs in stores that read, "the customer is always
>right", and that was a
> message to the clerks from mgmt.
>
> I was pleased, and would recommend them.
>
> mark
>