Mail-From: local user A350MR40 at 17-Sep-82 13:56:14-EDT
Mail-From: local user A310GB46 at 17-Sep-82 11:52:27-EDT
Date: 17 September 1982 1112-EDT
From: Gary Bradshaw at CMU-10A
Subject: Re: Sorry, I'm.....
To: Mitchell Robinson
Remailed-To: Harry.Bovik at CMU-10A
Remailed-From: Mitchell.Robinson at CMU-10A
Remailed-Date: Friday, 17 September 1982 1320-EDT

Mitch,
  The best place to buy components is through the mail.  If you get any
stereo magazine, places in New York, Chicago, and LA advertise prices.
I suspect you can save at least 30% of the cost over buying locally.
I have dealt with several of these places and have never had any problems.
If you'd like, I'll look up their names.
  My advice on names is to stay with manufacturers which do not market
cheap lines.  This would exclude Akai, Fischer, BIC, Radio Shack, and
Sansui.  I have a copy of consumer reports which rates many components
in the price range you mention, and can loan it to you any time.
					-- Gary