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 November 6, 2008
INSIDE
THIS ISSUE
NEWS—NEWS—NEWS—NEWS
SMALL IS BIG
STORE STANDARDS
SALE ITEMS—SALE ITEMS—SALE ITEMS—SALE ITEMS
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2-Channel, too cool!
SUPER Discounts on all 2-Channel Products Last month (October) we celebrated the 5th anniversary of our relocation to Florida. Many of our customers came in, called or emailed to congratulate us. We thank you all! To further express our thanks and to help everyone get better music and audio at home this Holiday Season, we've decided to offer a new sale! Throughout November 2008, you can get reduced prices on 2-channel products (yes, speakers too!).
We have a number of store demonstration units that are discounted even more! Call or come in to the home of beautiful sound 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. See our list of Demo items on sale (including lots of cables and accessories!) at the end of this newsletter. And check out our ever-growing list of Used and Consignment items too! ◊ Turntable Revival Revive your turntable in time for the Holiday Season! We are now offering a special deal on reviving old turntables. Our standard labor charge for this service is $95/hr. However, as a special deal this month, we're offering labor at half-price! That's right, for $47.50 per hour of labor, we can get your turntable running like new again. Great deal!
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 us your turntable today!
◊ Visit Our On-Line Store Here's a reminder! 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. ◊ Vinyl Sale Extended Here at the home of beautiful sound, we're having lots of fun with the 25% Off Vinyl Sale, so we're extending it through November 2008! That's 25% off every LP! Come in, load up, and save a bundle! See you soon!
◊ Cayin Audio MUST HEAR! The Magic of Tubes—Affordable Excellence We've sold a lot of these excellent tube amps over the years and, after a brief hiatus, we now have Cayin Audio back in our shop. The crazy good A88-T integrated amp has just arrived. This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful amps ever designed and its sound quality is in the same league. Fully remote controlled, you can switch from its very smooth and warm 24 wpc Triode mode to its clean, clear power driving 45 wpc Ultra-linear mode right from your listening chair. The A88-T sounds so good and is so eye-pleasing that you may never buy another amp. Hand built with point-to-point wiring, the Cayin amps are built more like the classic tube amps of the 1950s and early 1960s than most amps produced today This one is designed and voiced to sound like the original McIntosh MC275 amp that lives on still as one of the greatest amps ever designed. Come on in and check it out. You're going to be amazed.
"In the listening room, the Cayin 88T has a big beautiful open sound that could best be described as glorious. Or perhaps striking is a more appropriate description. Ah, I've got it. Call it strikingly glorious. Yeah, that's it. Nope, that's not quite right either. The 88T sounds impressive and the characterization is certainly accurate. But it doesn't hint at the amazing sense of transparency that projects forth from the 88T. Of course that big and open sound is largely due to that marvelous degree of transparency. So maybe I've made that point already. The Cayin 88T is as transparent and strikingly glorious an amplifier as one is likely to find at its relatively meager asking price. Or well beyond. Okay, I can live with that characterization now." John Potis, sixmoons.com It's only $2395!
Cayin Audio A88-T Integrated Amp Cayin Audio A50-T Integrated Am The A50-T is only $1395 and gives you 35 fabulous watts per channel and a large measure of the A-88T's performance. Really, come on in and hear this wonder! You are going to like what you hear. ◊ "Product of the Year" Need a Small Speaker that Produces a Big Sound?
The BG Z-92 loudspeakers have just been awarded "Product of the Year" from Electronic House. "Product of the Year" is a prestigious and highly coveted accolade. That loudspeakers priced at just $2495 a pair should be distinguished as "Product of the Year" is impressive indeed!
We talk about these
new speakers non-stop. They are so very good and priced so very low that we can't
stop talking about them! The
Bohlender-Graebener Corporation (known as BG Corp) is a Nevada based
corporation. Yes, these speakers are made in the USA. BG
Corp Z Series speakers are truly something different. Along with
their dual 6 1/2" Neodymium Magnet woofers, these three-way speakers have the
finest planar ribbon midrange and tweeter units around. They have a
small footprint, narrow and unobtrusive, and yet produce prodigious bass to
match the sweet, smooth, dynamic, fast, detailed and always musical planar
ribbon mids and tweeter. You will like
these speakers! And, if you're like
so many of our customers who have to fit their loudspeakers into narrow spaces,
you're going to love them (and so will your spouse!). The Z-92 and Z-62 speakers are at the top of the Z Series but still are so reasonably priced that you won't believe your ears. The floor standing Z-92 goes for just $2495 a pair and the Z-62 Center Channel speaker is just $999. Stepping down a bit in size (but not so far in performance) is the Z-7 Floorstander (pictured to the right). It sells for just $999 a pair!! With its matching Center Channel speaker (Z-5, $399), the Z-1 Bookshelf speakers ($599 a pair) and the Z-Sub (just $599), you can put together one seriously good 5.1 home theater speaker system that puts many, much more expensive, systems to shame. Come on in and give the BGs a good listen. Bring your toughest CDs and take them for a ride. “Their clarity and high-definition qualities present a clean, uncongested midrange presence and a high end that resolves details that otherwise go unnoticed in music and movie soundtracks.” Gary Altunian, About.com: Stereos The BG speakers have been collecting awards from Stereophile Magazine, The Absolute Sound Magazine and a host of others. The Z-7 was selected as The Absolute Sound's "Affordable Loudspeaker of the Year" in 2004; also, a number of the BG speakers have enjoyed "Recommended Component" listings in these magazines. When the BG sales rep brought these speakers over for us to audition, I was sold in the first 2 minutes. The depth of the bass coupled with the speed, detail and air of the midrange and treble is intoxicating. No doubt about it, at their very affordable price points, these BG speakers will change the way you think about affordable loudspeakers. They will blow you away with their accuracy, transparency, smoothness, bass extension, high frequency air and sheen, and pure musicality. And if that doesn’t blow you away, the price will.
“The smoothness and composure of this star-quality tweeter is
intoxicating and startling in its transparency, offering sonic excellence
that easily surpasses the speaker's modest price.” We have both the Z-92 and the Z-7 speakers here for you to audition. Before you spend big bucks on lesser speakers, find out just how much speaker you can buy for such a small price. Come in today! You’ll be glad you did. ◊ Gallo Acoustics - Award Winning Performance Huge Sound, Small Speakers We have proudly represented the Anthony Gallo Acoustics line of speakers for years now. They have consistently been among our best selling speakers and for good reason. Their small size, huge sound and modest price put them into an arena shared with very few other lines. The Reference 3.1 floor standing loudspeaker system has won accolades and top awards from pretty much every Audio/Video publication in existence. Now the all-new Strata is available. It's the small unit with two bass/mid drivers and a center tweeter. It can be oriented horizontally for center channel use or vertically for LCR and surround/rear speaker use. Clear, clean, smooth and always musical, these speakers will do wonders for your space-limited home audio or home theater system. Got some room? Available soon is the GIANT of the Gallo line, the all new Reference 5LS Towers. With 7 of the patented CDT II tweeters (300 degree dispersion pattern with air and detail to write home about), with 8 of their extraordinary carbon fiber round based midrange units, and 12 of their 4" long throw woofers (they're mounted on the back of the towers, firing to the rear), these extraordinary speakers produce a sound field that will amaze you. They come bundled with the exceptional Gallo SA Sub Amp to drive the rear woofers. For the system, it's $18,999. They compete very well with speakers that sell for three times that price. .
"The Reference 3 produces sound of such neutrality and transparency that it could reduce grown men to tears of delight." --HiFi Choice "We're not dealing with a loudspeaker that is like anything you've heard before." --HiFi Choice "The Anthony Gallo Acoustics Reference 3 is about as perfect as any under $5000 speaker has a bloody right to be." --Srajan Ebaen, 6moons.com Product of the year. The Absolute Sound
◊ 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 ◊ 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. We have some units to turn over for fresh stock and we therefore have them on sale (and 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, shoot us an email, or come by our shop. Please 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.
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◊ 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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