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[Olfda Lertih]

I had hooked one up at work yesterday, hooked it to a 5.1 channel set
of Accusound DL895s (I have these at home hooked to an Onyko 501)

The Speakers are 6ohm, the Philips rates itself at 100W into 4ohms. I
wasn't expecting much from this system, I mean how could something that
weighed so little, have HDMI switched, DCDI, etc actually be all that
good? With a price of $1499 I expected very little.

Boy, was I wrong. Watching Spiderman, Eagle When Hell Freezes over in
DTS, cranked to max volume this amp simply pumped, clean, powerful
sound without a trace of distortion. This sounded far better than my
setup at home by leaps and bounds. Actually i've ran thse speakers on a
Pioner 1015, Onkyo 602 & 702 and this little Philips sounded the best
with these speakers.

Shame Philips australia doesn't market their prodcuts well, or at all.
They simple have an awesome unit here, that deserves to be priced a
hell of alot more. It's packed with features and delivers in the sound
area.

On the picture side I haven't had yet to test is upscaling & hdmi
switching capabilities. I'm waiting on a Cineos DVP9000 dvd player to
go together.

[Olfda Lertih]

Anyone here bought one yet?

[Fred At Home]

"Olfda Lertih" <cmwmjt@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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[renedecandia]

I bought one from Harvey Norman in Martin Place, Sydney.

Ordered it on Tuesday and am hoping to get on \Friday so i have the
weekend to play around with it. I managed to get them down to $110 by
playing off one salesman against another (obviously they weren't there
at the same time).

I'm glad to here a postive experience of it though.

I too am bewildered at Philips lack of marketing of this product.
Whoever the Marketing Manager of Philips Australia is should be fired.


--
renedecandia

[Olfda Lertih]

Well put it this way. There are many competitors in my town and I've
had customers who've been to all, and simply said that to me that I
knew more than any of them put together. I unlike most of the others
who work with me and most other sales droids in other stores, I
actually make the effort to research products, ask questions I give
customers straight out honest opinions, I've told many customers that
monster cable is overpriced and that they don't need $300 cable.

The result? I work on the weekends only and sell more than 80% of the
other staff members.

[Olfda Lertih]

It's an awesome little unit, as I said its performance running big 6ohm
DL896 Accusound towers was just amazing. It's almost as if the speakers
were perfectly matched to it. I've got the exact same speakers with an
Onkyo 501, and believe me the Philips put my Onkyo to shame, personally
it sounded better than even with the Onkyo 602 hooked up.


YEs I agree, Philip's Australian marketing manager needs to be sacked,
but apparently the reasoning for the lack of promotion is "insufficient
money" go figure?

[Olfda Lertih]

I'm honest enough to tell customers which products are shit and which
are good. I've told many who were buying or contemplating buying a
PTAE700 things be possibly aware of, like premature globe failure.
Because they'll either find it out off me, or they'll find it out off
the net or someone else. And some people will have done their homework,
come in and ask you questions they already know answers to, such as "do
you know of any problems iwth the unit." I've done this myself many a
time, and I only buy off people that are honest and don't bullshit.

I apply this idea when I deal with customers.


So simply don't hold it against the places you buy off like Harveys,
not all sales droids in those places are mindless money hungry drones,
some actually care and know what they are talking about.

[renedecandia]

Olfda Lertih Wrote:

[Olfda Lertih]

Who knows, someone companies logic makes no sense. All I can say is,
its Philips. They are only doin the DFR9000 through Harvey's and no one
else, which doesn't make any sense. Next time I see the rep i'll ask
them, or I should just ring him, his name is Alistair.

No idea how the KEF's would sound we don't do KEF's. I haven't had much
time to test out the Philips with any other speakers, we do though have
a big set of Klipsch speakers, may hook it up next week. I've taken
this weekend off for uni exams :(

[renedecandia]

Olfda Lertih Wrote:

[Olfda Lertih]

Which Harvey's did you order from?

It happens, the delays are usually supplier or delivery. In some rare
cases a lazy sales-droid forgets to either generate the purcahse order
or doesn't fax it to the supplier.

We've got a couple in at our store (In Victoria), ask if any other
nearby stores have one in stock, they can then just do a branch
transfer, and you can go pick it up for the other store.

[renedecandia]

Olfda Lertih Wrote:

[Olfda Lertih]

Checking with other stores IS not standard practice, since we're al
franchised. And quite simply when we do a branch transfer its the other
store that actually gets paid, not the store actually making the sale.
Hence why they aren't keen to do it. It's normally on done if a) the
customer asks b) customer is desperate c) its necessary to make the
sale d) customer does not want to wait