Mar
11
White Van Speakers
Filed Under Shopping Tips
Folks, the White-Van speakers are never a bargain. That goes for the brown, blue, green and any other color van speakers as well. Think about it, are there any other items “worth” several hundred dollars that you’d buy out of the back of a non-descript van? This is one of the oldest scams in the book and the buyer never, ever wins. Sadly these speakers aren’t worth the raw materials it took to produce them.
As a matter of fact those “awesome speakers worth over $5000 that my boss said I had to unload today or else” often times don’t even have an internal crossover. In some cases they aren’t even properly internally wired and in almost all cases the cabinets resonate as loud as the drivers themselves. The simple truth of the matter is, in most cases, these speakers are bought by the truck-load for $40 or less a pair and then marked up as much as thirty times that amount.
The purveyors of these speakers are vultures plain and simple. Some of the models even have familiar sounding names meant to confuse the unsuspecting buyer into mistaking them with the real thing. Simply put this is a confidence scam and a poor one at that.
A few of the bigger examples of these “white-van” speakers would be Acoustic Response not Acoustic Research, Dahlton not Dahlquist, Genesis/Genesis (yeah that one’s a straight knock-off) Paradyme/Paradigm Grafdale/Wharfedale, Kirsch/Klipsch, PSD/PSB, JBL/JBL (again total counterfeit) etc. etc. These guys are really shameless about it and since they never plan on seeing you again they’re not even the least bit worried about it.
As if these cardboard speakers weren’t bad enough, lately these scoundrels have taken to selling knock-off electronics as well. I actually had a guy come in a few weeks ago with a “Genesis” receiver asking if it could be repaired. When I asked what was wrong with it, the customer replied “I’m not sure. It never worked from day one.” This receiver, and I use the term lightly, didn’t even have Dolby surround processing and it had the flimsiest looking set of speaker connectors I’ve ever seen on a piece of A/V gear and that’s saying a lot. Do yourself a favor and just stay away from this junk. It’s not worth your time and certainly not worth your hard earned dollars.
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Surround around sound around systems are another kind of toilet paper that you will probably never use. Spend money on a good 2 or 4 channel amp. Do your homework. Not all of the speaker and amp manufacturers display the RMS handling or output. Sony puts out an amp that says 600W but it’s 4 times 60W. Buyer beware.
I use mine every night but yeah to each their own. Pretty tough to get true surround out of a 2 or 4 channel amp but thats what makes this country great, we have enough time and resources to have differing opinions.
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