Advice about speakers

[RGA]

RGA

I take you do not have anything to back your claim of freebie B&W speakers do you?

I could but Mr. Qvortrup is in your neck of the woods and was willing to have you sit down and talk with B&W engineers about their preferences in loudspeakers and while there could tell you about the "freebies" - since you were too afraid to do that why would it be any different from my end. Why would I take up my time when you have proven to be a no show.

And when I asked for the serial number on the back of your AN K you claimed to own - you could not provide the information - even though it was supposedly sitting in your home.

And even here - you obfuscate the issue of sound quality by changing it to something unrelated since you have not auditioned either product and I suspect no Audio Note product ever - and certainly not the D800 then I understand why you would shift the topic to something other than sound quality and preference.

Interestingly the obfuscation is still irrelevant because even if the RE chooses the loudspeaker and his company pays top dollar for the speaker that still does not address quality or the RE's experience, hearing, level. The RE is a technician who is well versed in mathematics but is still in the same boat as the home consumer - and advertising is still paramount in those pages. Democracies are wonderful but not always right. The fact that most people buy Nike or that most studios use HD 580 headphones does not in fact make them the best or subjectively preferable to something else.

I am a little perplexed by your reasoning TAH - more people buy it so it must be better? I find the obfuscation amusing when even the B&W designers went to Peter for help. And hell Quad hired Andy Grove. I have to hand it to both those companies - they actually bothered to listen and they liked what they heard. I understand why B&W could not take the advice - the AN look is just not saleable to the masses and studios could not possibly put up with tube amplification downtime where studio time is exorbitant.

And as you quite correctly note in your sig line - that you don't need to see it - but as you know many people buy with their eyes - The B&W engineers prefer what they heard with their ears but they know full well that people = especially males - and I have mountains of education support for this - are visual creatures. B&W could not possibly sell the AN look even with nicer wood finishes - the form is far more important to the sale - whether it is a male buying it for his house or a male buying it for his recording studio.

I am surprised that you don't believe B&W is trying to sell the aesthetic over substance to the predominantly male buyer.