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100 below invoice

by wtliao321 on Sun Oct 28 13:20:55 PDT 2007

Arthur Parsons is my Internet sales consultant. I was able to negotiate to $100 below invoice on 08 MDX Tech/Ent, which is $42300 (including destination and wheel lock) + $95 fee + $255 registration and 5% MD Tax. The accessories are about 5-10%discount. You should be able find better deal online. Overall buying experience at Rosenthal Acura is pleasant. They would offer your the lowest price in Washington DC area, as long as you can find the lower offer from the other dealer and they will beat it. Good luck on your purchase.

Breakup value

by dhanley on Wed Jul 05 11:10:24 PDT 2006

Well, here's a slightly different take ( parson me if i've missed it being discussed before ). What would the breakup value be if the sub-brands were sold? For example, if ford sold jaguar, volvo, land rover, etc. I think ford has more value than GM in this respect. Hummer won't sell for much nowadays, and neither will saab. The other badges have too much of the rebadging aspect to be broken off easily.

Re: Liberty CRD for 2007 [bvcrd]

by synlubes on Sat Mar 18 11:24:33 PST 2006

i live in chanute ks spent a lot of time in parsons and oswego when is was young graduated in nineteen fifty six my wives grandfather helped build the trains in silver dollar city made them look american because were german at that time

Re: A question for our Bose M man [dashooter]

by bw45sport on Fri Aug 26 17:36:09 PDT 2005

Can you mention some music dvd's that will sound good and show off what the Bose can do ? I like Abba and ELO type music. dts is the acronym for Digital Theater Systems. It is a multi-channel digital audio format that was originally introduced in theaters in "Jurassic Park". The format has now migrated to home theater and a variety of DVD applications (5.1 surround, DVD-Audio, etc.). To play the music you need a device capable of decoding the dts information included on the CD/DVD. The M is capable of playing such discs on the DVD player. While DVD Audio should be a superior format, I've found that my dts discs produce a sound that you will simply be amazed by. The system really is that good. You mentioned ELO and I happen to have both "El Dorado" and "Face the Music" on dts. I had the SACD versions and converted them to dts so I don't know if dts versions are commercially available. The sound on songs such as "Fire on High" is really spine-tingling. Others I would highly recommend to display the system's capabilities are any Pink Floyd remasters including "Dark Side of the Moon", Alan Parsons Project "I Robot", any of the Moody Blues remasters and the remasters of Elton John's early albums. Oh yeah, also LPCM discs ? The simplest way to explain LPCM is to say that it an uncompressed format that provides sound quality nearly the equal of DVD-Audio. When I search Amazon for dvd-a, they just seem to return video dvd's Do a Google search using dvd audio and you'll find a large number of sites listing dvd audio available for sale. I think the current catalog is still only around 330 titles. Remember though that you can still listen to the audio portion of a DVD video while driving. Most videos have the audio in 5.1 Dolby, dts, or other high quality format that the M's system will play. The car itself is great fun to drive but you'll find excuses to drive it just to listen to the audio. Have fun!

Re: Audio M, part II [markcincinnati]

by lovemyclk on Mon Apr 11 16:28:34 PDT 2005

Given your affinity for great sound, have you ever heard of "Flim and the BB's" on the DMP label? If so, any knowledge on whether their albums like "Big Notes" can be had on DVD audio/SACD? Agreed about Alan Parsons On Air... you should hear it on a $100+K home theater system ;-) Wow! Final note on this topic... have you listened to the Division Bell by Pink Floyd? On DVD-Audio?

Re: Audio M, part II [mapleman]

by markcincinnati on Mon Apr 11 12:54:51 PDT 2005

DVD-Audio, SACD (even DTS music discs) may have been the answer to a question no one was asking. I believe the "saving grace" for this wonderful audio medium -- if there is a saving grace -- is the automobile. Why? I'll start by answering a question with a question: when is the last time you put a CD in your player, sat down in the "sound sweet spot" and listened to the entire thing? Think of this activity as the same as watching a movie but without pictures. The lifestyles of most people have changed since the days when people actually would sit down and watch the radio on Saturday night -- and how. HiFi Mono started things (after LowFi Mono 78 RPM records), followed by HiFi Stereo and so on -- quad sound was a novelty and it required a lot of money to get it right, which basically was pretty good, but difficult to enjoy "if you did it right." Stereo got better and better, home theater started happening, and home theater started down the path towards becoming ubiquitous. Dolby and DTS came out and transformed sound from Matrix to Discreet and from 4 to 5 to 5.1 and more channels (in the quest for sound envelopment during moving watching [at home]). Movies demand that you sit still, often for 2 hours. Music never has (outside of concerts) and surround sound music takes more equipment and to really enjoy and appreciate what can be done with multi-channel music, well, you really do have to pretty much sit still. The original question used to begin the answer still stands. The only place I can imagine that people sit still for any period of time is when they are involved in "travel" -- and driving just springs to mind as a place where there is a captive audience (you and me). If DVD-Audio and SACD has any chance whatsoever, it will be because of the automobile. I buy my DTS, DVD-Audio discs (I may have 15 of them) from Amazon. No place stocks them and the only place I will be able to play them and enjoy them is in my car. I have several DTS discs and if I am alone on a dreary Sunday afternoon, I may pop Santana's Abraxis in DTS in or the Alan Parson's project On Air (also in DTS) for a wonderful sonic immersive experience. If I get up and walk around, though, the entire effect is lost, so, I usually only play these discs when I am alone or when my wife will sit still (rare) -- and I can imainge if you had friends, relatives or neighbors over for an evening, they would not be too keen or sitting on your sofa "watching the stereo, or multi-channel audio thingy." Then there is the issue of the software -- they're ain't much of it. What little there is is too expensive to leave the novelty category. When you hear it though, it does make you want more of it. The issue for some folks, though, is that a "DDD" audio CD crafted by the likes of Donald Fagan (Steeley Dan, etc.) or Dire Straights or Alan Parsons or Pink Floyd or some of the wonderful classical offerings of Telarc or the great recordings on Nonesuch are pretty darn good and without some nice playback gear and some medium to high end speakers, perhaps the current state of stereo is "good enough" for the great masses -- for the Wal Mart shoppers, etc. Er, no offense meant to anyone, I too, shop at Wal Mart. Of course this is just my opinion, you may be holding back just 'cause you think there isn't enough software. Or you may be holding back until the players drop in price (again).