Subject: [WSFA] Re: A resolution of a question I asked weeks ago, about
 car stereo
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:56:22 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 07/20/16 07:09, Madeleine Yeh wrote:
>    What sort of car do you have?

'08 Honda Odyssey minivan.

mark
>
> 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
>>
>