Anyone else in the AV industry?

[trippinbillies40]

Hey guys! I'm a new ML owner as of a couple days ago, and new to the forum as well.

I work for a smaller (soon to be huge) home theater company in Cincinnati called Entertainment Solutions. Right now we have two stores, and our third will be open by October.

We deal in mid to high end equipment. Our video lineup consists of Runco, Fujitsu, Sony, Mitsu, Samsung, and LG. Speakers are B&W, Klipsch, Era, and Def Tech. Components are Denon, Sony, Yamaha, Rotel, and Classe. Our furniture comes from united leather, Legacy, Sona, Rom Webber, and Salamander designs. We have touched in home automation with Control4, and are in the process of becoming Elan and AMX dealers.

Just wondering if anyone else works in the same type of industry? It's always fun to chat with people out of my market since there's not too many high end stores around here.

BTW, here's our website:

www.esolutionstv.com

I'll post more pics of our new store soon.

 

[Audiophiliac]

I work at a mid-high end retailer/C.I. company in Boise, ID. The Stereo Shoppe. We sell lots of stuff...being the only high end shop in town, we are lucky to be able to call just about any manufacturer and get a piece or gear for a client. But we sell Wilson Audio, Krell, Classe, VTL, Martin Logan, Musical Fidelity, B&W, Paradigm, Denon, Marantz, Runco, LG, Speakercraft, Elan, Crestron, URC, Rotel, Anthem, Gallo, Salamander, Sanus, Cinematech, Stewart, Transparent, Panamax, Tributaries, Liberty, Richard Gray and probably more than that.....

We have been doing a lot of semi-dedicated theaters recently which is my favorite part of the job. I dont mind doing distributed audio systems which we also do a lot of, but I am more into the performance oriented systems instead of the lifestyle types. Starting on a room from scratch and coming out with a killer looking and sounding theater room is rewarding...both for me as an installer and the client. Especially when you have access to the best gear out there.

www.thestereoshoppe.com

 

[trippinbillies40]

I totally agree. Theaters that open up into bars, etc, are my favorite to work with, especially when the client is interested in performance and wants to audition stuff. I wish we carried Logans so i could have got a nice deal on new ones, but I settled for a pair of used ones. Hehe. And by settle, I mean "settle." They are still amazing.

How does your store do with carrying both the equity line and paradigm? We actually got rid of paradigm when we picked up al the equity stuff.

 

[Audiophiliac]

We do well with both lines. We sell alot of Studio products and a ton of 600 series.

 

[MiTT]

So hey guys, are you going to be helping all of us out here with some discounts? :devil:

Just kidding... your PM boxes would continuously be full from those of us afflicted with Joeyitis.

 

[TomDac]

So hey guys, are you going to be helping all of us out here with some discounts? :devil:

Just kidding... your PM boxes would continuously be full from those of us afflicted with Joeyitis.

I'm not kidding! Is this possible?

 

[trippinbillies40]

Haha, we don't carry ML!! You afficianados wouldn't want anything to do with our crappy B&W's

Alot of the stuff that is "high end" is unilaterally priced. Makes it hard to discount and ship. The Equity line for example (B&W, rotel, and Classe) would pull our dealership if they found out we discounted something and shipped it. They don't mess around.

Now if you come in the store, we can talk