Mr Peter Q's opinion about ALL of your speakers !!!

[Florian]

OK lets forget about the whole RGA issue and me and lets focus on the above statment. What do you think about that?

-Flo

[kexodusc]

He's entitled to his opinion, and at least he's done something about it by starting Audio Note...I disagree with an aweful lot of the stuff he says (whether it's marketing or Peter Q just really believes it I don't, know, don't care).

And as I said, I find it ironic that someone who recently made comments regarding how all of us here (99.9%) own "hi-fi" speakers as opposed to the superior "hi-end" speakers he owns, and consequently don't know what sounds good - would have a problem at all with Peter Q's statements.

Not sure what your beef is...I would have thought you and Peter Q would get along fine.

[Florian]

My beef is very simple. I am against over hyping !! And comparing a B&W 700 to a Soundlab U1 or a big Apogee etc... has nothing to do with taste. I had many HIFI speakers in the past and i never said that tey were the best there is because its not true.

My problem starts when someone says "Hey my 700$ speaker sounds only a little bit worse than your 70K system ..."....or "An makes the best speakers and 99% of all other manufactures are totaly wrong".

-Flo

[Peter Duminy]

OK lets forget about the whole RGA issue and me and lets focus on the above statment. What do you think about that?

-Flo

I am sure Mr. Qvortrup wrote the email to you personally regarding his own thoughts. I am quite certain he will not appreciate his private email to you being placed on a public forum and thus open to scrutiny. Luckily, most here will realize the context of this statement, and that perhaps all Companies are a long way from perfection in sound reproduction.

[Florian]

RGA post like 7 private mails to him on the forum. I am doing no wrong.....

[kexodusc]

Flo - There you go on and on about RGA again. I can understand how he can annoy you. But best just to ignore him.
I'll be fair, I've had (and continue to have) my gripes with him, but he's coming around. Just take what he says with a grain of salt.
It's not like he's converting everyone to his religion or anything.

[Florian]

Well thats what i am afraid of. Lets asume a beginner comes in here and ask for speaker opinions. The general answere is B&W or Paradigm. Then RGA comes in and writes a book about Peter Q and how AN is the only speaker in the world. I hold against it saying that his **** MDF box is nowhere near the sound of real. I am anoyed by the permanet AN advertisment. In every single post !!! Always you hear AN AN AN !!! I am just sick of it.

If he would say, hey check out the AN speakers there are pretty good sounding, but they may not be your cup of tea i would be fine. But no, he comes in and says its the best thing there is and all others are wrong. Then you have to read like a freaking book about some theory crap.

-Flo

[JSE]

At least this is not a personal thing huh? LOL!

JSE

[theaudiohobby]

At least this is not a personal thing huh? LOL!

JSE

[LVMF]

I've been away for awhile but good to get back, especially with this thread.

I'm sure Audio Note is a fine speaker...there are hundreds, maybe thousands of them.

I came here 8 months ago, and had many a suggestion, including RGA's suggestion of AN; but he also suggested others.

No one suggested Reference 3A mm De Capo i's, which is what I ended up with.

The whole of it is, NO speaker sounds good if it's not integrated into the right system. What's the right system, it all depends on the listener and what their budget will afford.
...and there are so many variables...

As the Band once said, 'life is a carnival'...and so it goes!

[theaudiohobby]

RGA is a laugh , I have taken to making fun of him occasionally ..since I have noticed he is oh so sensitive..., I am even getting better at dodging all those flames he throws around, when he is frustrated.