Ok, so what is Audio Note's primary business? And its secondary business? (GPUs? Nuclear reactors?)Speakers are a tertiary business for Audio Note - most recording studios have purchasing agents so it is often not the case that the RE chooses the speaker the Recording studio uses - Bob Hodus is an acoustician and engineer who worked at Abbey Road Records - he thinks B&W is total garbage - he didn't buy or select the speakers for the studio - they were what was there.
Indeed, Recording studios are also often "given for free" their speakers so that the company gets to advertise "B&W is the choice of Lucas Film" - that means far more to them than the $15k they get from the sale of the speakers.
For any studio to be looking at "home audio" equipment to use in recording or mastering - they're the type of people who care a lot about sound and go and seek it out. Musicians too. Sure some musicians buy Bose but that's because they are human like most people and buy whatever happens to be sold at stores near them - maybe they buy the speakers they see in the recording studios. In other words, the biggest name speakers. That is hardly an Audio Note which is far away from being a household name.
I dunno but when a Mastering engineer/audiophile who has attended audio shows for decades and who has recorded and mastered The Eagles, The Doors, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Cream, The Cars, Blondie, Jim Croce, Linda Ronstadt, Jethro Tull, The Doobie Brothers, Jackson Browne, Steve Miller Band, Elton John, Van Halen, Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Pepper, Rod Stewart, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Wes Montgomery among others and has recorded and mastered highly praised SACD and Vinyl for labels like Audio Fidelity/Analog Productions says they're the best speakers he has heard in 40 years (including ATC/PMC/Genelec and other recording studio darlings - and uses one pair at home and one pair in the studio. To me that ranks a bit higher than an RE working at Abbey Road who uses B&W where the RE doesn't even like the speakers.
Okay so that's one guy but then you have the likes of Damian Quintard who is a young up-and-coming talent who did the sound at the Olympics and has recorded award-winning classical albums from award-winning conductors like Teodor Corentzis and has worked with the likes of Lady Gaga - already. He uses AN speakers. Brad Pitt has hired him to reopen the famed Miraval Studio. Gearbox Records in the UK has also changed out their mastering system with AN gear. These are quick examples - adding to that all of the various review publications where the reviewers, unlike most people, hear most everything have owned/still owned or raved about AN speakers and systems - Well that's a pretty impressive track record - when their tertiary business managed to out do speaker makers who are solely dedicated to speakers. I mean reviewers at Stereophile/TAS/HiFi Critic/Hi-Fi Choice/Audiophile/dagogo/6Moons/TNT/HiF-Review/enjoythemusic.com/Part-Time Audiophile - off the top of my head have reviewers who own AN speakers. Again tertiary business - reviewers who have heard all the major best-measuring speakers buying $10k+ AN speakers - which don't even look impressive or measure impressive.
Maybe the Hemp woofers are making all these people high or something but you don't fool that many highly experienced people for 30+ years.
I never said B&W speakers measure well. There are lots of recordists out there who have long used NS10Ms on an unpaid basis, and those are terrible. Whether any particular person in the industry prefers Audio Note speakers to B&W speakers or anything else thus indicates almost nothing about whether Audio Note speakers are good reproduction devices.
Damien Quintard is a great social media influencer but lacks any knowledge of electrical engineering, acoustics or psychoacoustics. Real engineers - yes, I'm saying that Damien Quintard is not a real engineer - tend to use Genelec, Neumann/K&H, Geithain, and, more recently, Kii and D&D monitors.
I don't have time to address all the other nonsequiturs....