Quote Originally Posted by Florian
Also don't forget that the original AudioNote maker was AudioNote Japan. But after a fight they broke up and left Peter in england with the sales right. Quite similar what happend to Tact and Lyngdorf Audio. Also the big publications dont rate the AudioNote products very good for their money. I have many old HIFI magazines here and some new ones where they generally ocupy the lower spots with the biggest price tags with the recommendation that you run them with AN electronics and have to like that certain character of the speaker. I am not saying its good or bad, but not for the mass of people.

-Flo
bose is for the mass of people.

Which reviews? Audio Note UK and Japan separated yes and the fact is neither is weaker than the other one. Kondo San is doing very well and focusses on more expensive pieces almost exclusively. AN UK makes some affordable pieces. But AN UK is responsible for a number of highly touted excellent products. They have a few weaker products like the AX -One and the Absolute Zero range which supposedly needs to be together to work best. But then that was the point of thing.

AN is about running them together because they were designed to work together. Nothing should be a surprise there. It's one of the biggest reasons that dealers can;t take them as a line -- dedicaing such a huge amount of resources to one company is not something many can do - not when it's a no home theater company with ugly looks.