I don't know your age, but Circuit City was a huge electronics retailer in the late '70s, 80s and 90s, selling receivers, turntables, cables, CDs, DVDs and other media and electronics products. All their retail stores are now closed. I think Best Buy may have run the out of business. In any event, it was nothing for Circuit City to have every model of a mid fi receiver, and the more you paid, the more watts and features you had.
I'm 75. I knew Circuit City. The post seemed to suggest that Circuit City is still around. I was having fun with it.
Looking at some of the other posts, at least one seems to be from a Californian. In so. Calif. we once had a choice of mid-fi retailers. Going back to the '80s in San Diego, we had Dow, Mad Jack's, Leo's, Federated Group, Silo, Pacific Stereo, and Good Guys. A little further back was Wright's House of Hi-Fi. Not all at the same time, but when one chain died, another would rise in its place. I may have forgotten one or two. There were quite a few hi-end retailers, too. The mid-fi -- except for Best Buy -- are extinct. My favorite hi-end store in S.D. closed (owner retired), and I think they're down to one or two (Breier's and Stereo Unlimited). In L.A. -- huge as it is -- the only one I know is Shelley's. I know them, because they service Linn turntables. Almost all of my purchases of new gear in recent years has been online retailers and direct from the factory/importer (Hsu Research).
