I've been hearing a bit about this "new brand" Quest. To my knowledge they are only available at best Best Buy (Future Shop in Canada) stores.
A few people have been posting how great and inexpensive these speakers are.
I happened to have a few days in Boston this week and checked out a set of Quest Q660, QB5's, and QT66.
The salesguy I talked to who let me demo these told me they were made by Athena, but I've since discovered they're made in Canada, and to my knowledge Athena is not a Canadian company. The parent company is Erikson, who in my opinion generally makes lower end audio equipment, but that doesn't mean anything.
The highest price speaker was $200, the lowest $100,
Upon first glance, it was easly to tell these were made of MDF, something a few other brands that sell far more expensive speakers should consider adopting...but anyway.
Nothing fancy looking about them, the tower models were quite big and bulky but an average fit and finish overall.
On to the sound test...the saleskid popped in some Dave Matthews and Aerosmith at first...I found the speakers to be flat, bloated in the bass area, and rather mediocre, but they reminded me of Cerwin Vega's in their ability to make pure noise. Maybe a decent party speaker for college kids on a budget. We switched to Norah Jones a minute later and that's where these speakers, every single model, truly sounded aweful. It sounded like we were listening to a bad FM broadcast, not a CD. Heavy bass, painful treble, completely unnatural sound. The only thing any of these three models could do was put together something resembling a stereo image. The QB5's I demoed had a woofer that actually vibrated, causing a terrible noise.
I'm not sure what people are talking about, I'd put Quest speakers right up there with Sony, Technics, and Panasonic brand loudspeakers...brutal and painful. Certainly not challenging Axiom, B&W, PSB, Paradigm etc...in their lower end models.
You pays your money, you takes your chances...I'd avoid these like the plague.
I may post a review for each model if I get time, but I probably won't bother.