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Back when I was a student at OSU...

...there was a mostly higher-end audio store right on High Street (on the edge of campus)--Progressive Audio. They sold some nice $$$ stuff, but their bread and butter was us college kids. For every piece of ARC, Krell, Phase Linear, or Levinson, they could sell us a dozen Pioneer, Kenwood, Sansui, or Yamaha pieces--and they knew it.

They'd "entertain" us in the high-end rooms (they had like a dozen rooms on three floors)--you could smoke in the rooms, you could smoke pot in the rooms (sometimes they even provided it), you could drink in the rooms, you could hang-out for hours. They didn't care.

If they had a "serious" customer, they'd either schedule them an appointment and set-up a "system" for them to audition, or shoo us out to another room. They knew damned well that we didn't have the money for the stuff they were letting up play with, but they also knew we would eventually buy something--and our money kept coming and kept the doors open and the lights on.

I'm not sure if they still exist. I know that they had to move when Campus Partners re-developed the area--by force, to yuppify the neighborhood. I bought my Linn LP12 there in 1985, and my ARC SP-6 and D-76 amps a few years before that--IIRC late 70's--maybe around 1980. (I still have them all). I bought a pair of LaScalas from them somewhere around that time, as well. I think that might have been where I bought my first CD player--a Mission for what seemed like a zillion dollars at the time. It was either there, or Golden Gramophone in Akron.

I'll admit it--I've eaten pretty much anything cheap and horrible, just short of dog food, when saving for a car or audio gear. It was what it was--and they were good times. Then, life gets in the way--for a while...


"And today is for sale and it's all you can afford. Buy your own admission. The whole things got you bored. Well the Lord chooses the good ones, and the bad ones use the Lord"--a very dear friend for decades Michael Stanley (Gee)--RIP


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