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 October 8, 2008
INSIDE
THIS ISSUE
NEWS—SALES—NEWS—SALES
World Class Performers
Store Hours SALES—SALES—SALES—SALES—SALES
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Special Anniversary Sale!
We've had our home audio shop for 11 awesome years! We first opened for business in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we lived for more than 25 years. But in 2003 we moved our home and our shop to the Tampa Bay Area. It was 5 years ago, on October 11, 2003, that we opened our shop here in Clearwater, Florida. Our premise was simple: by providing the very finest products in music reproduction, by dealing with all of our customers with admiration and respect, and by delivering genuine value-added service of the highest order, we would find a welcome place for ourselves here among the music lovers of Florida. We are very pleased that that premise worked! To celebrate our anniversary and show our appreciation, we are happy to bring you, our customers, a very Special Anniversary Sale! For our Florida customers, you pay no sales tax on any new product purchased during our sale (which runs throughout the month of October 2008). For our many out-of-state customers, you pay no shipping on new products during this sale. That's just the beginning. We have many items in our store that are very nicely discounted! See the list of Demo items on sale (including lots of cables and accessories!) at the end of this newsletter. Regarding demo items in our Premier product lines, call us (727) 446-2505. Do check out our updated and expanded list of Used and Consignment items.
◊ Our On-Line Store NOW OPEN! NOW OPEN! NOW OPEN! As we announced last month, our Sweet Home Audio On-Line Store is open for business! Access our 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. Click the Link and you're there! We've been busily adding new products and information to the Store. We have so much more to add but we move closer to having the shelves full every week. As you would expect from
the home of beautiful
sound, we have in our On-Line Store an extensive lineup of analog products—turntables, cartridges, phono preamps, record cleaning products and supplies.
You can get your new turntable from us, knowing you're dealing with music
lovers who actually know what they're talking about and who are expert at
setting up and installing turntables as well as all the rest. We have a good
number of products in our On-Line Store right now—a lot of analog
equipment and a great selection of CD players, amps,
integrated amps and loudspeakers. This is just the beginning. We
have thousands of products waiting to be posted—a very long list. We doubt You hands-on audio and video enthusiasts will want to frequent our On-Line Store—there you will find everything you'll need to install your own distributed audio/video system (including the tools). Yes, everything including bulk speaker wire, on-wall connections, volume control units for in-wall loudspeakers, indoor and outdoor speakers, and all the rest. And accessories galore! You will see an extensive array of both home audio and home theater electronics, loudspeakers, and accessories to help make your home entertainment experience all that it should be. Buy from us, and relax because you know we back
every one of our products and we aren’t happy until
you are. So go ahead, fine-tune and extract the maximum enjoyment
from your home system with peace of mind. You can place your order
right on the web site (what a concept!) and your order will be shipped right to
your front door. [As
always we will be at the shop and by the phone to a Our complete lineup of home audio and home theater products and services is available at our shop at 1290 S. Missouri Avenue in Clearwater, Florida. [Our On-Line Store presents many of the vendors and products that we sell, but certainly not all of them.] In this age of easy access and convenience, finding a reliable resource of any kind can be a comfort. A "keeper" is the reliable resource that consistently provides useful information, excellent products and friendly customer service. And so with that in mind, we are pleased and excited to present to you our On-Line Store, another Sweet Home Audio resource. ◊ Vinyl Sale! In September we brought in a lot more used LPs. As part of our Special Anniversary Sale, we are offering 25% Off vinyl! That's right, 25% off every LP! So come on in and load up with some great LPs and save a bundle!
◊ Cayin Audio NOW HERE! 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 them back in our store. 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 beautiful 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
Cayin Audio A88-T Integrated Amp Really, come on in and hear this wonder! You're going to like what hear. ◊ World Class Performers The BG Z-92 is 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!
For the past two issues, we've been talking about these new speakers. 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 $2,495 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 Abso!ute Sound Magazine and a host of others. The Z-7 was selected as The Absolute Sound's "Affordable Loudspeaker of the Year" in 2004 and 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 the 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.
Usher BE-718 "Tiny Dancer" We introduced the Usher BE-718 loudspeakers in our July 2008 newsletter. And we wanted you to know that these babies continue to amaze. The "Tiny Dancer" is performing here and delighting audiences daily. Do come in today to meet the "Tiny Dancer" and catch a stellar performance.
"If I were in the market for a stand mount these would be my first choice because, in this price class, I think a speaker that hits all its marks is difficult enough to find but one that is as engaging to listen to as the Usher BE-718 comes along only once in a blue moon." -- John Potis of Sixmoons.com
Acoustic Zen Adagio Jr's In our July 2008 newsletter we also introduced the Acoustic Zen Adagio Jr loudspeakers. And we must say responses have been nothing but standing ovations. These loudspeakers were real crowd pleasers right out of the box and they just keep on getting better and better. The Adagio Jr's grace any space beautifully. Come in today and catch a performance! You'll be glad you did.
"I was so amazed by the performance of the Adagios that I didn't hesitate to nominate them with a MOST WANTED COMPONENT AWARD." -- Craig Fitzpatrick, The Stereo Times ◊ 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 ◊
New Simplified Consignment Options! 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. ◊
◊ 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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you in person.] And you can place your order knowing that we have
the very finest in on-line payment security in place. 
This award
is prestigious and highly coveted. That this $2,495 pair of
loudspeakers should win it is impressive indeed!
