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In Reply to: Yes! Bay Area Audio.... posted by AbeCollins on January 6, 2025 at 12:29:48:
...an audiophile will reach out to me, and adamantly insist that he had crossed paths with me. When you press him, he'll state that the photos, time frames, and music positively identify me and my friends.
And when it comes to crossing paths in audio stores, the guy will state that it was unequivocally Lummy, his music, and a girl or young woman depicted in my posts.
Alas, most of these audiophiles are no longer in the Bay Area, and can't just roll out of bed, and meet up with me.
When I was working at Stanford (above) and the mid-Peninsula, the only audiophiles I met in person were those who dropped off (and picked up) cables, which went on my Cable Cooker. Again, I don't know what a drug deal is like, but I got that vibe, when these South Bay audiophiles handed over the $$$$ and $$$$$ cables.
I had one stint, working for Stanford Student Housing. One morning, an electric cart had been dragged (undoubtedly by students) into Lake Lagunita, above. When we got closer, we saw that it belonged to us, and that we had no idea, where it normally was supposed to be parked/stored.
On the El Camino Real side of Stanford was an store called The Audible Difference. It was a flagship Mark Levinson dealer. I have never gone to that store, so whenever an audiophile claims that he saw me there, he is mistaken. Good heavens, we don't need more of me!
I did, however, go to another audio store, just up El Camino Real, in Menlo Park. It was called Sound Perfection, and carried, among others, Conrad-Johnson and ProAc. See, Sound Perfection and San Francisco's Ultimate Sound were friends. So when I went to Ultimate Sound (which was frequent), David always said that, if I needed any of the brands which SP carried, he could get them. And that's exactly how I, while living in S.F, was able to try CJ and ProAc. I did take advantage of this, and go through Ultimate Sound, to get a CJ EV-1 phonostage and ProAc Response One SC.
So perhaps you had visited The Audible Difference and/or Sound Perfection :-)
Up in Burlingame was an audio store, whose name escapes me, which carried Martin-Logan. San Francisco's Audio Excellence was tiny, and never had the room, to show off speakers, including Martin-Logan, in a good light. But the Burlingame store did have a little more square footage.
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