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In Reply to: RE: Help me pick SET monoblocks posted by morricab on August 25, 2017 at 07:40:07:
""Its simple, you were equating the expansion of the company and it's financial success as a direct correlation to the sound quality of AN's products. I pointed out, rightly, that commercial success has nothing inherently to do with sound quality even with small high end companies...otherwise Magnapan, who you so despise, would be a GREAT loudspeaker. B&W would be world beaters and better than AN because they sell A LOT more speakers than AN and they are not a midfi/lowfi company.""
Nice try with yet more strawmen.
Once again I am not suggesting that more sales = better product and I have told you this about 50 times over the years so get it through that THICK f-ing skull of yours.
ANd if you could READ you would see that I DIRECTLY brought up Magnepan - that they sell well, that people love them - I don't but I can recognize they are a successful speaker maker and so SHOULD YOU. Why? Because they TARGET the audiophile market and they find success with the AUDIOPHILE MARKET whether or not people like the sound or not. People go out and listen and they buy them. Ditto for B&W. Whether I like them or you like them is immaterial - They are deemed to be a good loudspeaker maker. Now if people ask me if I think they're great - well no I don't personally like them. I like other speakers better. But other speakers I like better are not necessarily the same target audience as B&W is very big into surround sound home theater applications. Which is similar but not the same as 2 channel primarily music applications.
Success is really simple. If a store sells 2 loudspeakers for around $2500 and at the end of the year after demonstrating to hundreds of people the store sell 50 speakers from ABC and 0 from speaker XYZ and almost ALL the listeners are audiophiles who have heard a lot of speakers - then it stands to reason that the "success" of speaker ABC is successful due to sound quality and not any other "excuse" that can be invented to make anything stick to the wall.
I'm sorry you don't get why comparing a speaker maker like B&W to Audio Note isn't the same as comparing small outfit speaker makers to Audio Note. If you truly don't understand this there is no further reason to go on with you. You have to win the argument regardless of using a modicum of sense. These are generally different markets with different agendas.
B&W was a massive entitity well before Odeon or AN hit the scene. And so was Magnepan - that's why those comparisons are not the same. Audio Note was a tiny outfit back in 2003 as well - so you can compare small bespoke audio maker to small bespoke audio maker. When a dealer sells two brands of speakers for the same money (Soundhounds carrying Reference 3a and Audio Note and several other amp brands like ASL, Jolida, ARC) and when vast numbers of customers come in - they audition and buy consistently one over the other to the point where the other can't sell anything - they get dropped.
The notion of good - you can't get past your ONE singular opinion. I mean this is not f-ing rocket science buddy. 10 people walk into a store and listen to $10,000 loudspeakers. If Nobody buys them - the dealer drops them - if people buy them then people LIKE THEM!!!!!!!!!! They then do not get dropped. The dealer phones up the manufacturer and says - hey build me 50 more of those they're selling like hotcakes.
While sales doesn't make something good in and of itself - a lack of sales sure as hell doesn't make something good! Of the two the former is sure as hell more likely (Again WITHIN the confines of direct apples to apples - small audio company versus small audiophile company) not heavily marketed juggernauts like B&W and Magnepan or Harman International and various products.
You simply don't like the fact that Odeon failed in the US market and the only product to be reviewed was deemed an abject failure. I'm happy to go audition a different model if and when they ever become available.
To a previous request with KR I auditioned them with audio Physic and Peak Consult. If these speakers to your mind suck then KR should be more selective of the dealers they choose to show their gear with. In other words if these two speakers suck that is KR's fault for not building or demanding dealers to carry speakers that showcase their amplifiers properly. It was big sound - hi-fi didn't move me - impressed me - didn't engage me. Like most SS.
Tell your friends at Odeon to get a dealer in Hong Kong or Vancouver Canada - Big markets both with tons of rich people - tons and tons of millionaires and billionaire audiophiles - surely if AN is terrible as you say then if Odeon puts a speaker in the same room - all the audiophiles who come in will all buy the Odeon and AN will go out of business. Your dream come true. SO why didn't that happen in the US? If it is so outstanding for the same or less money (and I admit I like the looks of them much better) so they should kill.
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- RE: Help me pick SET monoblocks - RGA 04:51:48 08/26/17 (1)
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