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From: andy@mitisft.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Dak incorporated BSR speakers offer-is it a scam?
Message-ID: <139@mitisft.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 22:22:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 22:22:21 1986
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Keywords: speakers,bargain offers,mail order scam?

In article <2409@rsch.wisc.edu>, uppal@rsch.wisc.edu (Sanjay Uppal) writes:
> I came across an advertisement in the July issue of Stereo Review
> offering these incredibly low-priced speakers made by BSR. The offer 
> was made by Dak incorporated. I have been considering buying a second
> pair of low cost speakers, and the price quoted seems great.
> 
> Has anybody heard of BSR, and/or had any dealing with this sort
> of offer? I recollect seeing quite a few Dak incorp. ads in past
> issues of Stereo Review- but I have never really tried them out.
> 
> Sanjay Uppal(uppal@rsch.wisc.edu).

I purchase a pair of BSR speakers from the DAK catalogue.  They were
advertised as being really fantastic and sounding great.  They were neither,
but they were *amazingly* cheap.  I don't use them anymore (my roommate
has a pair or 5' high Infinity speakers), but I would recommend that if the
ad lists the dimentions of the speakers in question (BSR makes many models),
that you look at a piece of paper or something that size so you know
exactly how big they're going to be.  Mine were considerably smaller than
I had expected.  The way that DAK does it for so cheaply, I understand,
is that they buy the obsolete speakers from BSR for next to nothing,
and package them in the enclosures themselves using BSR grilles and
crossovers.  About the best way to describe them is low-priced.  You
get what you pay for, at least in this case.

Andy Sharp
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