MeyerEmco-Harvey Electronics merger

[drh]

I just saw an article in the Washington Post reporting that MeyerEmco, the local (DC area) "mainstream high end" equipment store (i.e., the store that immediately comes to mind when one wonders, "where can I buy an expensive home entertainment system?"--not necessarily the best, or worst, place to do so), is to be sold to a New Jersey concern called Harvey Electronics. Can anybody shed any light on what kind of operation Harvey is? All I got from the article was the suggestion that Harvey has some financial problems and the usual "we're buying the company but absolutely *nothing* will change" promise, probably not worth the paper it's printed on (mind, I'm not a big M.E. booster, but I just find such claims inherently fatuous).

[LesPaul666]

Harvey Electronics can be a nice place, When I used to work it NYC I used to buy a lot of equipment there(My prized old Klipsch Forte' II's!) The problem, is that they only handle a handful of product lines. Discounts are scant, as well. It's kind of a high end store, if you will, but in the last 20 years or so has changed. The mid-fi superstores are probably running them under the water. I think they just have a handful of shops, usually in high-income areas, and an online website to order from, as well.

Who exactly is MeyerEmco?

[marcb]

Harvey Electronics can be a nice place, When I used to work it NYC I used to buy a lot of equipment there(My prized old Klipsch Forte' II's!) The problem, is that they only handle a handful of product lines. Discounts are scant, as well. It's kind of a high end store, if you will, but in the last 20 years or so has changed. The mid-fi superstores are probably running them under the water. I think they just have a handful of shops, usually in high-income areas, and an online website to order from, as well.

Who exactly is MeyerEmco?
It sounds like Myer Emco is the DC version of Harvey.

I shopped at Myer-Emco 25 years ago when I was first getting "Hi-Fi". You could buy some pretty decent stuff there back then -- Nak tape decks, Magnepans, etc -- as well as some mid-fi stuff. Now it's mostly geared toward decent quality Home Theatre (and some car stereo stuff, I think) -- kinda like Best Buy's Magnolia or Tweeter.

Even though I live fairly close to a Myer-Emco, I probably haven't been in it more than a handful of times in the last 5 years or more. And I probably haven't bought anything there in 15 or 20 years.

[soundQman]

I bought my Marantz universal player from Harvey Electronics a year ago at 50% discount because it was being replaced in the Marantz line by a newer model. A stupendous deal and good service to boot, but that's just my one experience.

[teaser5]

When we were designing this house our builder had a deal with Myer Emco and they wired the place for the phone, computer and alarm systems and the speakers that are all over the place. They also sold me the rudiments for my surround system including my Pioneer Elite 64. The idiots tried to deliver it to my old condo. The bloody TV was bigger than the apartment but that didn't seem to phase them. I spent many thousands with them. Then they told me that they couldn't get the turntable they ordered for me. It was like a five hundred dollar deck, don't even remember the make and was on backorder for about a year. That's about when I found Sound Works and got involved here. The rest is history. Bye bye Myer Emco. :wave:

Peace-
Norm
t5

[drh]

When we were designing this house our builder had a deal with Myer Emco ...

M-E wired our music room, and I was low-end satisfied with the job. The problems that have emerged: the channels are reversed for one speaker run, and the jacks that M-E installed *look* like standard banana jacks but are spaced such that standard dual-pin plugs won't fit. Not a killer, but grrr....