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Ten Years Interest Free at Steve Bennett Hi-Fi

Geelong's Johnny-come-lately store, Steve Bennett Hifi who, incidentally, still won't open Sundays has finally got on to the interest-free bandwagon. "I was shattered to hear that over 70% of box-mover store customers defaulted on their payments" Mr. Bennett said. "It works out that they pay penalty interest and all the interest incurred in the 44-odd months leading up to when the final payment was due"

Steve Bennett Hifi believes they have found an answer to this dilemma. "We are offering 120 months interest free. Of course we require a moderate 90%deposit  on the R.R.P. and that's it!"

According to Mr. Bennett the balance is completely optional, "they (the customer) can either pay it, donate it to their favorite charity or not pay at all it's completely up to them."

Mort Mortimer's has always had the latest.

Mort was adamant about having the latest model He was very careful not to be caught buying the 'old model'

So much so that he enlisted his physician and clairvoyant to predict how long he would live.

Mort's team was incredibly accurate, all his friends and relatives were most impressed by the system he bought Just 2 weeks before his funeral. The incredible clarity at Mort's life-slide-show.

Good old Mort, just waited 'n waited. Got it, got it right, and left nothing but the best.

Lesson; Don't wait forever, there will always be something newer and better. One day!

Look at what great new stuff we have at Steve Bennett Hifi, strike when you are ready and forget the rest. Enjoy it, buy it in time to be able to wear it out!

Pavarotti mistaken for Barry Gibb

When a Mr. Small assembled his new tiny speakers it appeared that a beard is not the only similarities between these two singers.

Mr Small was not told that he needed at least a 75mm midrange speaker to produce male vocals (Mr. Pavarotti's voice that is, perhaps not Barry's) "..in fact all the vocalists sounded like Barry, sort of falsetto" Mr. Small said.

Fact; The plastic computer style satellite speakers that are used in popular systems only begin producing sound over about 1KHz. A baritone such as Robert Merrell sang between approx 110 to 425Hz.

The tiny sub-satellite setup also means that a performer such as Topol in Fiddler on the Roof will stay firmly stuck fiddling on the floor! The frequencies he sings at are all in the woofer box, and that's mono!

So it will be no Topol characteristically parading around the stage at Mr. Small's home.

Poor Pavarotti, a tenor with an enormous vocal range would actually be jumping between the woofer box and the tiny satellite tweeter boxes as the passion mounts.

Steve Bennett Hifi has excellent full range speakers that are affordable (and you don't even have to be a rich man!) Look up B&W MT20

 

Music Lover Takes Up Golf After Wife Switches to MP3's!    (click for mp3 speakers!)   SBHIFI Jingle mp3

MP3 is short for MPEG-2 Layer 3, a coding standard for compression of audio data

Mr. Bekker (no relation to Walter Bekker of Steely Dan),  took great pleasure in listening to his favorite recordings from CD (and even from his treasured LP collection.)

While Walter was away on business, his wife learned of the latest mp3 technology while shopping for a computer controlled toaster. 

On his return & hearing initial results, Mr Bekker commented that MPEG could stand for Musical Performance Energy Gone!

MP3 definitely has its place, and that is to sample music on the net or listen to your music whilst on the move.  This may be done from your thumb-drive or mobile phone, even while playing golf! The latest Receivers (RXN-600) even cater for MP3 thumb-drives, Ipod and PC music files.

All was well again when the couple asked the advice of the local Hifi aficionados at Steve Bennett Hifi. The Steve Bennett team said how good music suffered under compression, (may be likened to a nice photograph after it has been sent via a  fax machine).

Mr Bekker was be pleased to know that Steve Bennett Hifi still have fantastic sounding, hand selected two-channel sound systems.

Mr Bekker now has his friends the Diamonds, Windwoods, Armatradings and Dans over regularly.

 

Get the right advice, and do it right the first-time round
Hints to protect your sound gear at party time

If you are extending your speaker wires DON'T let the wires touch each other! You may blow the outputs in the amplifier.

Keep your brother-in-law away from the volume control! Friends sometimes delight in 'maxing out' your system (they don't have to pay for the speaker repair!)

Volume position of around Eleven o'clock is 'flat out' on most amplifiers (if it won't go any louder, don't try to make it, that's when the damage occurs).

Speaker voice coils are just like a fuse, once burned they are history. (And burned coils are not covered by warranty)

Protect your ears! Get a rubbish bin lid to 'gong' bad karaoke singers. (The 'gonger' stays anonymous, thus avoiding retribution later.!)

Run all your speakers if you have more than one pair, they'll share the load better.

Remember music appears to sound softer after 10pm (something to do with the food perhaps?)

If you know how,  you can set your surround amp to the 'small' speaker setting. The Sub-woofer is better suited to bear the brunt loud bass in the music.

Finally, consider your neighbors, as a bonus it could save you a hefty repair bill!

 

 

 

Whole family prescribed Prozac after watching their new plasma

"Too big for the news and two small for the movies "was Mr. Bennett's advice on plasma.

Mr. Iver Gotwantu said he had no idea of the impact the nightly news would have on his family.  The 'horror movies were  right there on their TV'.  Bad news took on a whole new impact on the 50 inch plasma.

"I should have taken the advice of all my friends , and visited a local Hifi cinema experts at Steve Bennett. They are the only ones advising to invest in whole family enjoyment."

They advise the huge 100" projection system for 'event viewing' such as concerts, movies, foxtel and sports. It's 4 times the size of a 50" plasma.

They suggest you use a 32" ~42" television  for news. doco's or Dr. Phil or Opera. The interesting point was that the Home cinema projection system available from Steve Bennett Hifi is actually half the price of a big plasma ! 

"too big for the news and two small for the movies certainly rings home now..

... it's about standing Sentinel at the gates of the mind, and not allowing unsavory content in the home. We sell excitement and the right advice." Mr. Bennett said .

"The Titanic was Huge, why not see it in the titanic proportions of the cinema?"

Steve Bennett Hifi can supply fully matched projection and sound packages from H/K and a Hi-def Mitsubishi projector for around $3,500.

Building? your house not ready, or are you not financially quite ready yet?

We can get it all sorted now, before your chaotic move-in period begins. (We can provide interest free to approved clients. you pay the balance in 6 months.) *

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Why not contact us now. For 6months interest free, all that is required generally, is a steady income and a permanent address.

More on sound

ww.listenhear.co.uk/general_acoustics.htm

This is the magnet  on a B&W speaker. It needs to be that big to give great sound.

Note; salesmen wrongly refer to cheap woofer boxes as 'Sub-woofers'. Sub means sub-sonic bass. These flimsy devices are in fact super-woofers, or 'boom boxes'.

 

 


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