Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
You have to admire the owner of AN for sticking with his guns. Why do home theater if it's not your area of expertise? That's a mass market thing, where a company tries to be all things to everyone. Audio Note is clearly a company for those who enjoy fine 2 channel music reproduction. I heard a story from the CES show where the owner had all his extremely expensive gear set up to show but he played these old 78's on the system. I also understand he has one of the world's largest collections of vinyl.

It does take time to get a line to take off in a new market. You also have to do your best to educate the public. I remember years ago going into a shop hear in town and hearing of and listening to Arcam for the first time and now it has become a well known brand most every where.
Well a visit to Walrus Hifi or even Werner Musica will immediately illustrate some of the reasons why Audio Note is not as big a brand in Europe, The 2ch space is just simply much bigger in Europe, the smaller listening room sizes more or less make it inevitable.