Safe & Sound Webinar: Tips to Improve Your Sound System with Peter Q from Audio Note UK

In this Safe & Sound webinar we are joined Peter Qvortrup, founder of Audio Note (UK) Ltd, Europe’s largest and most prestigious manufacturer of ultra performance valve based home audio systems. He and Colleen discussed his passion for and philosophy behind analogue sound equipment. Peter is a profoundly knowledgeable and fascinating person - this webinar is not to be missed.
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[@IvoCoric]

Peter is a legend !

[@EddyTeetree]

I recently had for a few years a Leak Stereo 20 made in 1958. What a superb amp putting out 12.5 watts per channel into some Goodman’s 16 ohm speakers. Nothing ever sounded better but that damn amp ran soooo hot I could only use it in Winter!

[@iTomAnks]

Jaron Lanier, Flatland, Edward Bernays - not the kind of things you expect to come up in an audio talk but I found this fascinating!

[@nkenchington6575]

I fear I may become obsessed with Peter and Audio Note, given that I too bang on about Edward Bernays and old Mercs!

[@donpayne1040]

12:15 true.

[@deserteddrake]

who signs the CE conformity for these amps?

[@vaneast411]

An absolute dearth in authenticity in politicians today. truth!

[@scottchegg1209]

Audio Note stuff especially the speakers sound great in any room

[@lo3572]

If this man tells me to go vinyl. Maybe I should

[@Rockapotamus91]

He tries to explain something and she just cuts him off to change the question

[@BastianUllr]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@markfischer3626]

I am an engineer and a music lover. My reference is live unamplified classical music. My passion in life is solving problems. This is jus one of many hobbies for me. I have thousands of vinyl phonograph records and cds. The problem of high fidelity sound reproduction is a difficult one. To solve it you must first study the physics of sound and acoustics. The electronic part of the problem is the easy part. Like his counterparts in this industry this man has no technical knowledge, his products are crazy stupidly priced for example having obsessively turned a 1300 dollar a pair of 2 way 8 inch bookshelf speakers into a million dollar pair of speakers, and like all 2 channel stereophonic sound systems they don't come remotely close to duplicating the sound of live music. Conceptually this industry is building the same sound reproducing system it has built since 1958 and it still doesn't work. I met this man about 15 years ago at a trade show when his version of that speaker was only $350,000. In my entire life I have never detested someone so intensely so quickly. Even among his counterparts he's a primitive.

[@nkenchington6575]

ok, so what have you done to contribute? have any of your ideas come to fruition? and what would you charge for the final product? how do you listen to your music? have you heard an AN system?

[@markfischer3626]

@N Kenchington Yes I have heard several. AN systems and was underwhelmed. I am the inventor and patent holder of an entirely different kind of technology for listening to recordings. It doesn't reproduce recordings, it reconstructs sound fields. The US patent is 4,332,979. I approached 20 companies, none were interested. About 15 years ago I began preparing 7 new patent applications but aborted the effort when my new patent attorney told me some horror stories. I approached the CEO of a very large company. Three months later I got a letter from his lawyer saying the company wasn't interested because the patent had expired. The technology would need a very large investment to create a commercial product. It would be a very high risk proposition. This is only a hobby for me so I decided to go no further with it. Neither of the two prototypes were expensive to build costing about 3000 each. In their current form they could mot be a consumer usable product. The truth is I'm a much better scientist and engineer than I am a salesman.

[@nkenchington6575]

@@markfischer3626 interesting stuff, though far too technical for me to comprehend, I'm afraid. The fact is a mid level AN system sounds fucking brilliant to my ears, and very close to live music, so it's hard to imagine something besting it, apart from....a more expensive AN system! Peter is responsible for people's lives, as the big cheese. And AN have invested a shit ton of money in R&D, as you can see from various factory tour videos. I don't think he's playing at this thing and chuckling at how stupid people are for giving him money. And John Devore pops into my head, because he comes across as a thoroughly decent guy, and his speakers are almost exactly the same as AN...is he a fraud as well?

[@markfischer3626]

@N Kenchington I saw his old factory tour on KZbin. The place was a firetrap and the organization was like a junkyard. I'm very familiar with industrial facilities having spent a lifetime working on them as an engineer There were endless building code and fire code violations and I can't imagine an audit so lax that it could have passed. I'm no fan of this industry or its products. It once had a problem to solve and after the better part of a hundred years, countless people and endless money thrown at it, it has failed.

[@nkenchington6575]

@@markfischer3626 OK. So, how do you listen to your CDs?