"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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Exactly the opposite of the AR/Dyna listening rooms in the '60s.
You just sat and listened. No one tried to sell you anything.

And they stayed open for how long...?

Duh!!! I said "listening room." Do you know what a listening room is?

Yes, I do... it's a place where companies throw money into the bottmless
pit of "no return on investment" it's a place where they COULD be moving
product - as well as providing a pleasant environment wherein people could
experience their offerings in a relaxed manner - but choose not to, so that
their resources can be sucked dry by having to fund OTHER venues through
which they actually sell their stuff. Please reference Gateway computer
stores... a nice, relaxed place where you could look at/play with/demo
their computers, but not actually buy something & take it home - something
that people have, oddly enough, become accustomed to expecting from a
"STORE"... any of those places left? Nope.


There were two of them, one in Grand Central Station, and the other on
Sixth
Avenue (I think). THEY WERE NOT RETAIL STORES. The idea was to give
listeners a
quiet environment, free of sales pressure, for them to experience AR
products
without competition from other products.

Barnes & Noble is essentially a "reading room", but you can buy books
there, too, you know (and Starbucks coffee). Think they'll be in business
for longer than AR?

I think they were open about a decade.

OOPS! Yeah, I guess that answers my last question.
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Neil Henderson
Saqqara Records
http://www.saqqararecords.com