Since 1997
Brian Rovinsky, Owner
(Formerly, St. Cecilia Sound Gallery)
1290 S. Missouri St., Suite C • Clearwater, FL 33756-9183
(727) 446-2505
Email: info@sweethomeaudio.com
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Newsletter December 3, 2008
INSIDE
THIS ISSUE
NEWS—NEWS—NEWS—NEWS
STORE STANDARDS
SALE ITEMS—SALE ITEMS—SALE ITEMS—SALE ITEMS
Our Gift to You — SPECIAL FINANCING
We hope you are having the best Holiday Season ever! Ours is especially sweet this year. Here at the home of beautiful sound, we are keeping it joyous, with music produced with Analog, of course. Quite in addition to celebrating our favorite traditions this Holiday Season, we are also celebrating Analog and featuring it in this holiday newsletter. To help make this Holiday Season sweet for you, our gift to you is Special Financing. Put your new turntable or any of the fine products that we offer in your home this month and pay nothing for 12 months or how about 24 months to pay! Here are the particulars. Throughout December 2008, you can get special terms on all new product purchases:
For a complete listing of all our brands, visit our "Products" page. While there, be sure to check out the large variety of turntables, tonearms, cartridges, phono stages and analog accessories. These terms are valid for new products only. Other discounts do not apply. Keep in mind that we have in our shop a number of premier demonstration units that are discounted even more. Call or come in for specific availability and pricing on a nice variety of Premier demo units. Call (727) 446-2505 or email us at sales@sweethomeaudio.com for the details. Some Demo items on sale (including lots of cables and accessories) are listed at the end of this newsletter; as are our ever-popular Used and Consignment items.
Turntable Revival - Extended through December We're seeing a steady parade of turntables through the shop and we want to see more! So we're extending our Turntable Revival special.
A basic turntable tune-up includes a thorough cleaning, lubrication, and tonearm & cartridge setup. We check out your cartridge and give the stylus a good cleaning. We then test and tweak it until it sounds as good as it can. In most cases, we can get all of this done in just one hour. Bring your old turntable in and we'll make it sing at just half our normal bench service fee rate. That's right, for $47.50 per hour of labor, we can get your turntable running like new again. Revive your turntable in time for the Holiday Season! It's still a great deal! Bring us your turntable today!
Vinyl Sale - Final Month While the LP's are flying out the door, we're making sure the bins stay full. We have extended the 25% Off Vinyl Sale through December 2008. This is the final month at these prices. That's 25% off every LP! Come in, load up, and save a bundle! See you soon!
Music Hall Turntables The Magic of Vinyl—Affordable Excellence Roy Hall of Music Hall wants your vinyl playback to be fun and easy. All of his turntables come as close to plug-and-play as is possible with a high performance analog rig. Bundled with perfectly matched cartridges from Goldring and Tonearms from Pro-ject, these super high value turntables sound as good or better than turntable systems costing much more. As I said, high value! This month, we're featuring these wonderful Music Hall turntable systems just in time for Christmas. During December, buy any Music Hall turntable, use your Sweet Home Audio credit card (10 minute in-store application process) and take a full 24 months to pay for your new turntable and pay no interest! To sweeten this even more, we'll give you 15% off on all LP accessories and record cleaning supplies with your turntable purchase (record cleaning brushes and fluids, LP sleeves and liners and stylus cleaners).
Music Hall MMF-9.1 $2,195 Music Hall MMF-5.1SE $1,095 (5.1 is $875)
"The warmth, the unforced resolution, the deep tonal color were all there, along with more inherent beauty than just about any digital gear I've heard." "Analog playback has…depth, and the MMF 5.1 SE revealed it." "If all of the fine points of turntable setup are not your bag, the MMF 5.1SE is for you, as you can literally have this turntable playing music ten minutes after it arrives. On the other hand, if you enjoy futzing with your analog setup to discover the last molecule of ting from a triangle strike, the MMF 5.1SE supports it." Reviewed by SoundStage! Music Hall MMF-7.1 $1,495 Bellari VP130 Tube phono stage $250 Really, Vinyl simply sounds better! You are going to like what you hear.
Award Winning Performance
Thorens has been building state-of-the-art turntables longer than anyone. For more than a century, Thorens has been one of the world's leading turntable manufacturers. Thorens is known worldwide for their legendary reliability. To the delight of discerning listeners all over the globe, literally thousands of these well-known masterpieces are still playing music decades later. Thorens effectively marries modern technology with time-honored tradition. Sweet Home Audio, the home of beautiful sound, is proud to be your Authorized Dealer in this area for the complete (and very extensive!) Thorens line up of analog products.
These are a few of the extraordinary turntables now available from Thorens. With tonearm, color, style and performance options, the line up is truly amazing. Ranging from the very modestly priced S TD-158 at just $449, the line goes all the way up to their flag ship system, the S TD550 with SME 309 tonearm for $13,000, and includes 23 models in between. Thorens covers all the bases offering the most traditional of looks to the most modern, all of these units deliver the finest music the most discriminating music lover could ask for. As with all new products this month, use your Sweet Home Audio credit card and choose 24 months to pay at zero interest or take 12 months to pay with no payments due and no interest for a full 12 months, plus you get 15% off all analog accessories!
And For Something Completely Different: THX Ultra 2 In-Wall Subwoofers from BG Radia 2200 watt amp and four (4!) of Radia BFX-4850 Subs ─ Need an unobtrusive Subwoofer System that Produces a HUGE Sound?
The first THX Ultra 2 certified in-wall subwoofer system The finest design and engineering technology ever offered in an architectural subwoofer, the new BGX-4850 In-Wall subwoofer system combines four (or two, for smaller rooms) BGX-4850 in-wall drive units with a powerful 2200 watt stereo amplifier with exceptional DSP equalization, phase and crossover control. Ideally suited for either lifelike home theater or critical music listening, the BFX-4850 is elegantly unobtrusive yet awesome in its impact. It may be used with other high performance in-wall loudspeakers as a no holds barred subwoofer system. Only the grills of these BFX-4850 Subwoofers extend into your room (about 1 inch). They fit perfectly between standard wall studs and come with a full grill cover for retro-fit installations or the very elegant 8" grill for new construction. Each module contains twelve 4" long-throw woofers with each facing pair configured to cancel the mechanical vibrations of the system. This system gives you thunderous bass without vibrating your walls or sending unwanted bass into the adjoining rooms. Each subwoofer module is self-contained and does not rely on the wall cavity or back boxes. This delivers the best possible performance with consistent results. The 48 woofers in the system have a total radiating area equivalent to two 18" woofers. Huge! The system is so flexible that your can even use it in the room: on the wall, free standing, under a couch or bed, behind a curtain, anywhere you want! The small woofers are fast and detailed beyond any subwoofer you've ever heard. They connect to their own dedicated 1100 wpc power amp with built-in DSP adjustments for equalization, variable electronic crossover and phase control. The amp sits back with the rest of your gear with speaker cables running from the amp to the subs. The amp connects to your preamplifier outputs or your AV Receiver's subwoofer output. Okay, this is not an inexpensive system. The four subwoofer modules and the power amp go for $6,995. But if you're putting together a no-holds-barred home theater system or two-channel music system and you want tremendous bass but don't want gargantuan subwoofers sitting in your room, this sub system will deliver earth-shaking bass into your listening room without vibrating the walls they're mounted in and without taking up but 1 inch of room space! For smaller rooms, this system is available with two sub modules and the DSP amp for just $3,995. Call us today!
STORE HOURS Six and sometimes seven days a week, we are here. Our official schedule:
Monday thru Friday: 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM Saturday: 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM Sunday: By Appointment
Shop On-Line Access our Sweet Home Audio On-Line Store from our HOME page (www.sweethomeaudio.com) where a click on the "On-Line Store" tab will take you to the Intro page and Link for the On-Line Store. We've been busily adding new products and information to the site. We have so much more to add, but we're moving closer to having all shelves full.
Consignment Department We've gotten a LOT of interest in our consignment department since we announced the "levels" that we now offer. You can look forward to an expanded used and consignment department as the used products roll in. To reiterate our consignment policy, here are the particulars: At consignment businesses, consignment fees typically run as high as 50% and 60%. But we have kept ours at 40% for years. CONSIGNMENT OPTION 1
This is full-service consignment. Full service means we display, advertise, present and demonstrate your
gear, just as we do our own new gear. We handle any customer inquiries
(send them pictures, specs and other relevant information) and find a buyer; we process the
payment and deliver the gear to the buyer; we handle after-purchase questions
and issues and mail you a check for the net proceeds from the sale.
For full-service consignment, Consignment Option 1,
the fee is 40%. CONSIGNMENT OPTION 2 Consignment Level 2 is the same as Level 1, but you keep the gear until it’s sold. We advertise and promote your gear, handle customer inquiries (send them pictures, specs and other relevant information), find a buyer and handle the sale. But once it’s sold, you deliver the item to the buyer yourself. We send you a check for your net proceeds from the sale. For Consignment Option 2, the fee is 25%. Increase Your Proceeds by 10%: This is simple. If you leave your proceeds from the sale on account with us to apply to your own product purchases here at Sweet Home Audio, we reduce our consignment fee by 10%. So, our fee becomes 30% (down from 40%) for full-service consignment, OR it becomes 15% (down from 25%) for consignment sales where you handle the delivery to the customer. IMPORTANT NOTE: When we sell a used item, we do our very best to represent the product exactly as it is. This is very important! One of our most critical operating principles is that "we deliver what we promise." This is not just a slogan for us but the way we actually operate. When we have the used item here in our store, we can verify the operational status and physical condition of the products. When we don't, we try to get pictures and other information about the items so that we gain confidence that the product is as stated. In these cases, we also delay payment until the buying customer has received the item and verified that it truly is as promised. Existing agreements: Needless to say (but here it is anyway!), all current consignments that we now have will continue under whatever agreement was made at the time of the consignment. The above Consignment Levels apply to all new consignments. Of course, our policy to deliver what we promise applies to everything we do. To the very many of you who place your used AV gear with us to sell and to the very many of you who look to us for quality used AV products, we give you a very hearty THANK YOU! Now it is easier than ever to turn your old gear into cash! Call us today!
Premier Demo Gear—Private Sale Some Units at a Close-out Price! We have an excellent selection from Cary Audio, Conrad-Johnson, Adcom, Nola Speakers, Usher Audio, Gallo Acoustics, Jaton Audio and more. Some units have to be turned over for fresh stock and so we have them on sale (but NOT listed below). If you are interested in a great deal on a demo unit in one of our premier audio lines, give us a call. [Note: we sell these premier lines only to our local customers and to our non-local customers who do not have an authorized dealer for these products in their area.]
Thank you for reading our newsletter and visiting our web site! If you get a chance, come in and check out our shop. We'll be glad to see you!
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