Radio People Limited still exists, but...

I recently got a PM from an AKer asking me if "Radio People Limited" company still exists here in Hong Kong.

Researching it, I found their speakers mentioned in some threads here, like this one: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2031&highlight=radio+people
I thought others might be interested in hearing what happened to the company, so I'm posting the info here.

Radio People Limited still exists. I had a chat with one of their employees. He told me that in their heyday, they sold over twenty different brands of audio gear in Hong Kong. As the market evolved and changed (became more competitive), they reduced the number of lines they carried, until today they are the sole agent for Bang & Olufsen in Hong Kong, and carry no other brands except B&O. They currently have five dedicated B&O showrooms around the city, supported by back office operations in another location.

I asked him if RPL used to build their own brand speakers using Wharfedale drivers, and he said he didn't know. It was possible, but he hadn't been with the company for enough years to know about that. Maybe someone in the head office would know [I'll bet the owners would!], but no one in the showroom did.

That's as much as I've learned up to now.

I've had a couple of pairs of Radio People of Hong Kong speakers, one a pair of Lowther PM6s in acousta cabinets, which I think were of Hong Kong construction, and a pair of KEF Crestas(? -- I think thats the model -- the very small cabinet with a B139 and a T 25 in it), but that one I couldn't tell if it was a KEF cabinet or an RPHK.
The Lowthers are my usual speaker -- for all their faults, they sound more real than any of the other speakers that have passed through my hands.

Interesting, they are now down to only B&O but have something as esoteric and specialized as Lowther Acoustas in their past, really makes you wonder about their history.

I think I understand your attachment to the Lowthers Nat, I have had a kind of love/hate relationship with them for years. I can't live with their faults but they do some things better than any speakers I have heard. The experience of hearing a Billie Holiday lp on PM2A's in Medallions with low power SET is directly responsible for a complete paradigm shift for me in the way I approach audio.