stuck limo
Formerly with Light Harmonic/LH Labs
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A friend and I were talking about the exploding headphone market and how cool it'd be to set up a head/hi-fi shop that catered to headphone users. Reason being is that there seems to be very few places around the US to actually audition headphones. They seem to be in abundance in places like Hong Kong, but over in the US they seem almost non-existent. What do you guys think? What is the market for that type of retail store here in the States?
Another thing is competing with the online/used market. We'd have to end up selling used gear (which is awesome) and I'm not sure what type of profit is to be made with new gear + overhead / everything else. My idea was to find an existing record store with an extra room and rent it out from them. That way you'd literally be in your customers' market already. They come for records and try out headphones to listen to the records with and leave with something. It's basically free marketing at that point. Maybe rent some wall space or do some consignment deal. Any ideas, thoughts, comments, complaints, etc.?
What would YOU like to see in a head-fi shop?
Another thing is competing with the online/used market. We'd have to end up selling used gear (which is awesome) and I'm not sure what type of profit is to be made with new gear + overhead / everything else. My idea was to find an existing record store with an extra room and rent it out from them. That way you'd literally be in your customers' market already. They come for records and try out headphones to listen to the records with and leave with something. It's basically free marketing at that point. Maybe rent some wall space or do some consignment deal. Any ideas, thoughts, comments, complaints, etc.?
What would YOU like to see in a head-fi shop?