It’s a male dominated hobby. Filled with nerds (myself included). It also is an expensive and, at times, elitist hobby. So, you get some attitude.

I also think hi-fi stores have a lot of “tire kickers” for customers; customers who just come in to demo gear without any intention of buying. Which is probably frustrating for the store owner/employees, who often work on commission.

It isn’t right for people to be condescending. Frankly, there have been times when I came into a store planning on buying something, and their attitude was so poor that I just took my money elsewhere.

But yeah, it really really sucks.

I always wanted to drive my 800S’s in public.

^^^/s