Review of Audio Note Turntable.

[theaudiohobby]

Please, please RGA, I do not want this to degenerate into a free for all, but here goes

"He and his colleagues run a facility for that very purpose, listening"

If he had confidence in his own ears and listened for himself then why would he need to bring in average Joe's off the street to help him be the arbiter of what good sound is?

Ever heard of the term, "Field testing"?

Consensus? No there is no consensus there is opinion...my opinion is that the B-Minor is a terrible loudspeaker compared to the E. What is your opinion after having listened extensively to both of these loudspeakers?

Better go and re-read your original comments, your singular opinion is insufficient premise to arrive at your original conclusion, all you can deduce from your opinion is that you do not like Kevin Voecks designs, nothing more.

Of course I wonder why the E has been selling in one formn or another since 1980 or so with more orders than they can keep up with and the B-Minor ran for a few years and soon got replaced by a completely different design despite being aided with adverts/review in Stereophile.

The E and indeed most Audio Note speakers are very much like Toyota Corolla and such like, it has maintained the same name, but has changed enormously over it's production lifetime, probably the only the thing that remains intact from the original design is the basic cabinet dimension and the driver sizes. The crossover, drivers, etc have all changed considerably over the years.

I'm sure the excuse for the replacement is this week's new revolutionary superior improvement in computer modelling and aerospace materials that make the new better.After all that argument is valid -- why did you buy a pre 1970's design again? Ahh.

A copout..the AN's may have kept the same basic dimensions and name over the years but as mentioned previously, a lot has changed and is still changing, hence the gobblekook naming nomenclature to differentiate various iterations of the speaker. Your comments about my choice of speaker are a copout that has no relevance to your original comments which disparaged Kevin Voecks work.