Giles, this is a nasty sketch and a nice story about the LP12. The sketch captures the zeitgeist of the seventies and eighties, as well as the arrogance (of the "knowing" caste) on the one hand and the complete overstrain of many customers on the other hand at that time. In the hifi area I used to get to know some types of salesmen, some of them were terrible, of course there were also competent and trustworthy salesmen.
But nowhere else were and are there so many possibilities to play the keyboard from the sober electrical engineering and mechanics on the one hand to the left-handed snake oil, from which you put a drop on the speaker membrane at full moon.
