Klipschorn ten times as efficient as Audio Note's best

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I only get into this because AN is called out for making 20k+ equipment - last I checked so did EVERY other high end maker - and the crappy ones like JBL also mmake them and they have no bass??. It is really quite simple - regrdless of costs - you listen to the Audio Note 20k speaker and B&W's or Dynaudios or JM Labs' counter.

Any high end piece of equipment has far higher mark-up than a lower priced one. The cars by the way - Toyota already stated that ANY car they produce has a combined labour cost of the ENTIRE car just under 20 hours. There is not a mass production car built that would cost the manufacturer more tha $6,000.00.

The Kits are kits - the folks at the audio note kits forum can answer those question. The words largely undamped means that in cetain areas it is and so is internal bracing used to augment frequencies - which is different from the original Snells that were stuffed to the hilt full of dacron.

You have a massive company like B&W and a small time player like Audio Note(Peter owned and ran a much bigger audio company was a multi-millionaire before starting Audio NoteUK). Find out what B&W's designers think about Audio Note.

I find it more interesting that so many reviewers use Audio Note products as reference componants or heck even more of a compliment to JUST listen to in their homes. It is quite dispraportionate that a small company would manage a feat that the big guys can't.

There are plenty of more expensive companies as well - Audio Note is nowhere near as expensive as stuff from that eye-candy site.

I don't tell people to buy Audio Note - but you seem to take issue with recommending people give a $2000.00 Audio Note speaker a listen when they are shopping for a $2000.00 B&W or Paradigm? I wonder why that is? Surely no one has anything to fear - after all Paradigm and Energy and PSB and B&W's $2000.00 loudspeakers have more expensive materials than the AN's right? - well except for silly things like wiring, crossover materials, drivers, and the cabinetry - but besides those things.

Bottom line - no name company, don't advertising, ugly, expensive, demand dealer's carry the entire lines - not the top end ones but a full sampling from DAC to wire to speaker (Yes that is a sign they are desperate to make sales - this limits their dealers by about 98%). Why would any dealer want to carry such a line? Oh they heard the speakers for themselves - all they have to do is let people listen to them against those big guys. What a terrible company and pushy Mr. Qvortrup for asking one to listen to equipment befrore they buy. You think it's a rippoff fine - but before I call a $1500.00 TV a rippoff I usually like to see it along side the $399.00 version and other's in between to be sure it's a rippoff. and sometimes I can see that gee that $1500.00 tv has a better picture.

"Hoopla? AN doesn't advertise, nor does it produce product literature, because they would prefer that people get out and listen for themselves. That's pretty much the entire sales pitch. How very over-the-top of them!" (DrCope)