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 March 5, 2009
INSIDE
THIS ISSUE NEWS
STORE STANDARDS
SALE ITEMS
Performance is EVERYTHING (But CONVENIENCE ain't chopped liver)
Wireless Speakers for Home Theater or the Whole House Soundolier Duo
In many of our homes (especially condos and apartments), it is simply not practical (or even feasible) to run wires for loudspeakers to the rear of our home theater space or to other rooms in our home. There is also the issue of aesthetics. Having loudspeakers sitting around the room sometimes just doesn't work for the look and feel that you or your spouse is going for. Soundolier has a solution that works and works very well indeed. With the Duo you can have good sound for the rear channels of your home theater without the expense and clutter of wires or even traditional loudspeakers. The Duo looks like a high-end floor lamp (and it is!). Hidden within its good looks, is a high-quality full-range loudspeaker that fires upward and disperses sound in a 360 degree pattern (perfect for surround sound and background music). The lamp/speaker has a light dimming slide on the floor control that is attached to the unit. Tap it with your foot and turn the speaker on or off. Slide the continuously adjustable light switch on that same floor unit to adjust the light level. Brilliant! The Maestro is the transmitter. It accepts your audio signal through either speaker level inputs or line level. You set the transmitter to one of 4 channels and the Duo or Duos you're controlling to the same channel and away you go! You can set the Duos to play a mono signal (combination of left and right channels) or a left or right channel signal. Each Duo has an independent volume control and it will accept a direct connection to a local audio source (like an iPod or other stereo player). With the touch of a button, you can switch between the wireless audio or the local source. The Duo lamp/speaker unit costs just $299 and the Maestro transmitter is just $99. Truly, Soundolier is the perfect solution for your home theater rear speaker and distributed audio needs when hard wiring is just not going to work for you. Oh, and they actually sound very good!
New From MUSIC HALL audio dac25.2 Take your computer- or server-stored digital music to a higher place
music hall dac25.2 Today an increasing number of music lovers are buying, storing, and listening to music through their computer, media server, or personal music player (iPod). Many are also digitally distributing their music using a Sonos, Squeezebox, or one of a host of digital music distribution systems available on the market. This is a great way to explore and appreciate music but generally it’s done at the expense of sound quality. Until now, music lovers have been forced to rely on the inferior digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and sound cards contained in those devices; and as a result, their musical enjoyment has dramatically suffered. The the dac25.2 was designed to directly address this problem; it significantly improves the sound quality of the music played on these systems. By uniting a state-of-the-art digital-to-analog converter with a tube output, the dac25.2 produces the clarity and precision of a 24bit DAC with the warm rich open sound of tubes (that people love!). The dac25.2 has 4 digital inputs which can accept any coax (s/pdif), optical, XLR, or USB digital input from an iPod transport, computer, media server, Sonos, Squeezebox, CD/DVD in stereo transport, or music hall’s own cd25.2 compact disc player, and it will output two-channel stereo analog. The dac25.2 features the latest Texas Instruments (formerly Burr-Brown) PCM1796 24bit, 192kHz, advanced segment, stereo audio digital-to-analog converter. This processor features 123dB dynamic range, an 8 x oversampling digital filter, and just 0.0005% THD. The dac25.2 upsamples to either 96kHz or 192kHz, which is user selectable on the front panel. To achieve the best sound, it uses an advanced asynchronous reclocking and anti-jitter control system upstream of the PCM1796 DAC; this system uses the Philips 74HC574 in conjunction with the Ti SRC4192 Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter, whose master clock is a high precision active crystal oscillator. The dac25.2 also features a large, high current oversize power supply. And a headphone output is provided for convenient personal listening. Features This great sounding tube DAC is only $595! Call us here at the home of beautiful sound (727) 446-2505 and order your Music Hall dac25.2 today!
Music Servers from Escient MX-111
In case you missed our feature article in last month's Newsletter, clicking HERE will take you to our last Newsletter where, in detail, we introduced the Escient Music Servers. Wonderful machines. We've had the MX-111 set up and running in our shop for weeks now and we're having a ball with it. We're still recording CD's onto its 160Gig hard drive (it holds over 450 hours of CD quality music, and over 2600 hours if you record in MP3). It takes about 5 minutes to record an hour long CD. One of the things we like so much about the MX-111 is how it makes our music so accessible. With the music right there, sorted and organized, it's easy to get to and play. Part of the fun is rediscovering music that we haven't heard for a long while because it had gotten "lost" in stacks and drawers and boxes of CD's. The MX-111 is here for you to see, play, hear, admire and enjoy. Experience it for yourself. Call (727) 446-2505 today for a personal demonstration.
"Pre-owned" IS selling Consign Your Old Gear
The fact that consumers are hip to buying used is demonstrated to us every month by an ever-growing number of customers (throughout the U.S. and Canada) that are buying consigned items from us. It makes a lot of sense to consign your old audio gear with us. Consumers are smart. Getting great gear at a bargain price will never go out of style. Here at the home of beautiful sound, we make it easy.
Super Special deal Must Sell Consignment NOLA Elite
The consignor of these extraordinary Nola Elite loudspeakers has authorized a huge reduction in the asking price. Originally the Nola Elites sold for $4995. The asking price now is just $1999 (well under Blue Book value!). This deal is so good, we had to bring it to your attention. Jump on this while you can! First caller with payment is the winner! CALL (727) 446-2505 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 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%. 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 (727) 446-2505 today!
Consignment sales have been HOT! If you have something to consign or you want to buy CALL US TODAY (727) 446-2505!
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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