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After 21 years of fun and a reasonable profit for the time expended, I will be taking Amherst Audio over the Rainbow Bridge in June of this year. I am 86 and we are living in a condo now, which makes doing demos...awkward.

I retire with the continuing belief, evolved over 68 years, that Jean Claude Reynaud and his father Jean Marie, Gilbert & Angela Yeung, Andy Grove & Peter Qvortrup, and Jeff Kalt are the very best at delivering the clear, natural sound of real voices and instruments. And I leave with the satisfaction that I have done a goodly number of people a favor through my continuing expression of that belief.

I have lived through the ages of LP's and of CD's, while successfully avoiding the age of streaming, if that is what we're in now. I guess I'm happy that LP's are doing their little rear-guard action these days, though I'm pretty sure that their being made from digital rather than analog tapes is why I don't find them as real and present as the very best digital (read Resolution Audio Cantata 3.0). I'm not happy to see CD's fading out because I believe that if more people had truly good digital front ends, that medium could be sustained. But no matter. As the kids say, it's all good. And it's unlikely to get better: who besides the few of us I'm writing to, actually sits down to listen to music anymore?

Thanks to you all for being a part of the Amherst Audio adventure. The Reynauds of Barbezieux, France; the Qvortrups and Andy Grove of Audio Note in West Sussex, UK; Angela Gilbert Yeung of Innerkip, Ontario; Dave Cope of Old Forge Audio in Stonington, Connecticut; John Geisen of Wellington Audio in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; the Heastons and Funks of Austin Hi Fi; the late Barry and Judith Statham of North Bay Ontario and St. John's, Newfoundland; the late Clark Johnsen of the Listening Studio in Boston; Nelly Davis of Federation Audio in Palo Alto, California; Chris Koster of Naim; Dave Clark of Positive Feedback; Garnet Lewis, first North American importer for Harbeth, in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Joe Nicolsi of Philadelphia, David Cielinski, now of Charlotte, North Carolina; the Cobbs in Eastern Massachusetts; Mike Corgan of Falmouth, Massachusetts, Mac Calloway of Denmark; George Brennen, formerly of Music First in Northampton, Massachusetts; David Elrod of Elrod Power Systems in Greenville, South Carolina; Dick Moulding and his team of the former Sound and Music in Northampton, Massachusetts; and Cookie Marenco of Blue Coast Records in San Francisco. Of those I can still remember! Thanks also to the Daves of Positive Feedback and Steve Rochlin of Enjoy the Music for letting me review for them, and to Rod at Audio Asylum for indulging my bending of the Asylum rules for dealer commentary for many years.

And thanks finally to Gilbert for getting me to become an audio dealer in the first place (he was just Gilbert then), and thanks especially to John Perry, who kept this web site afloat. I will continue to offer what help I can to old customers and do sales through June. Best to all, Bob Neill

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Topic - Just Posted this on my website - Bob Neill 12:59:47 04/02/25 (4)

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