Why So Many Raidho Speaker For Sale?

Buyers Remorse, exactly what my friend down at Singapore had with his monitors. He actually preferred my Quested Studio Monitors more than his Raidho. I was never a fan but could not comment as i have not spent more than a few hours in front of one. I do find them boring. Some people love them others end up hating them after living with them for a few months. We all have different taste.

Cheap Chinese cabinets. As for overpricing, since there are a lot of people who don’t earn but make a lot of money, why not try and cash in, Danes and others think ? They play ’the stupid and ignorant’ card, and often it works. Besides, Europeans generally despise Americans and get pleasure out of that too.

inna --

You seem to do well yourself in regards to what you assume Europeans to similarly throw at you. Perhaps you’ll come in handy helping Mr. Trump to build them walls.

However, I’ll agree with you on this: some of the Danish brands of speakers are indeed overpriced, most notably perhaps Raidho and Peak Consult. Mr. Kristensen of Raidho has openly declared the cabinets of their speakers are made in China, a fact he feels no qualms about revealing. Raidho cabinets are typically "livelier" than other brands of similar-ish aspirations, but for a reason, and this translates to their views on room acoustics as well where they favor a predominance of diffusion rather than absorption in an effort to preserve the energy and "life" of music. In regards to their finish, well, I’ve never had an issue with it as such, but others seemingly disagree. I digress..

The finish and overall construction quality of Peak Consult speakers is, to my mind, absolutely gorgeous, and they’re hand-built to tank-like sturdiness at the facility in Denmark - to whom this may concern. I find Mr. Kristoffersen voices the different speaker models to maintain a certain house sound, and yet each of them has a unique trait or "personality" in a sense. Here it’s more about absorption and absolute weight of material, which lends to it its own traits and challenges. While both brands are sonically rather fascinating in their own right, I neither would nor could afford any of their larger floor standing models.

[...] Overall, Danes don’t know how to make speakers, they know how to make electronics, though. Gryphon is a notable exception.

I don’t agree with the former, overpriced Raidho and Peak C. may be, but it’s not like I have a particular inkling towards them either. Dali speakers never really appealed to me (too well-behaved, even boring), and with the exception of the older Contour 3.0 and 3.3 models Dynaudio’s sound in general always struck me as rather bland, and oddly uninvolving. System Audio speakers are simply too small, though Blue Trumpet speakers (new brand) are interesting, and very fairly priced. The natural imprinting and spatial abilities of Peak Consult’s speakers is a something to behold, I find, and they are rather dynamic - but, again, expensive.

The US is a much bigger country and market, and naturally you’d expect a diversity here more pronounced than a smaller country like Denmark (by factor 50), but that doesn’t make the latter incapable per se of making good speakers. The evidence at hand to my mind certainly doesn’t warrant such a conclusion. My sensibilities are more towards horn speakers, and would highlight Wheel-Fi, OMA and Simon Mears Audio as particularly interesting items, along with the more regular or mixed brew of (active) ATC, the former S.P. Tech. and some of the bigger models from JBL.

I have been to Blink High End numerous times recently and as far as I know they don't have D4.1s. So how did you got to hear them? Tim said he was not going to get them either.
Also, you say that you never heard the D5s ... how is this possible as Blink have D5s on a permanent basis - so the likelihood of you NOT hearing the D5s is very small indeed if you were in their showroom ... something's not right here ...

phusis231 posts11-11-2016 10:15pm

Cheap Chinese cabinets. As for overpricing, since there are a lot of people who don't earn but make a lot of money, why not try and cash in, Danes and others think ? They play 'the stupid and ignorant' card, and often it works. Besides, Europeans generally despise Americans and get pleasure out of that too.

inna --

You seem to do well yourself in regards to what you assume Europeans to similarly throw at you. Perhaps you'll come in handy helping Mr. Trump to build them walls.

be aware as OP doesn't like jokes and have no sense of humor. So what walls we're talking about? Bringing external politics to internal? It's a very good wall! It's the best wall you can think of!. Switzerland doesn't have external politics and have great internal economy and human wealth. Why worry about ANYTHING outside of HUGE and powerful nation? Quarter size of US army is ENOUGH to build invincible defence inside nation! Everything you want you can get HERE at ANY TIME if everything DONE RIGHT or you're so found of outsourcing labor for profit? Anyways any political whore gets fired, I'll raise my cognac shot and celebrate and grow my trust to our new driver that I in fact didn't vote for... I'm too liberal or even more anarchist than liberal. I'm only driven by humanity, TRUTH and peace that I found in neither of 2 candidates.