LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 All caught on this Quantum KVD Reel. KVD Reel 1.jpg Seems to work OK for me. A-Jay WOW!!! I SOLUTE YOU LOL now we are really gonna have some quantum haters show up....
Super User QUAKEnSHAKE Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 Dont use the reels much but do have an old 1993 or so snapshot trigger spinning reel that still good. I absolutely think the Smoke rod is a great product.
Super User A-Jay Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 WOW!!! I SOLUTE YOU LOL now we are really gonna have some quantum haters show up.... Thanks, but I was just trying to make a point. IMO, My "Brand is better than Your Brand" threads are perhaps my least favorite topics on the entire BR fishing forum. Rarely if ever, do these threads add anything constructive to what is otherwise such an excellent site. I can't even call them entertaining as they routinely cause disharmony. Question regarding certain brands / models are routinely answered with adequate information provided by members who have little experience using the equipment. Posts offering the opportunity to debate brand quality, performance and dependability, illicit responses that appear defensive, misrepresented and hard to interpret; completely different from so many of the high quality responses elsewhere on the forum. A-Jay 4
bootytrain Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 I also believe that their lack of product advertisement is hurting the company. They don't advertise as much as shimano and abu. In this competitive sport, they need to step their game up because people are the back bone of the company, and right now it seems like the shimano brand is winning that competition.I rarely if ever see shimano advertise when I see fishing tournaments on tv. Its all quantum and Abu. Heck I even know quantums slogan catch phrase from hearing it so much. "Fishing at a quantum level" LOL
TNBassin' Posted June 28, 2014 Author Posted June 28, 2014 WHAT!! LOL some of the best in the industry use Quantum. KVD, Bill dance, Gary klein, Tommy biffle, shaw grigsby and Casey ashley to name a few.I just don't really pay attention to who uses what in fishing.
LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 I rarely if ever see shimano advertise when I see fishing tournaments on tv. Its all quantum and Abu. Heck I even know quantums slogan catch phrase from hearing it so much. "Fishing at a quantum level" LOL "Quantum hater alert" All i see on the internet is shimano shimano shimano and shimano. If you go to TWH, they even have a shimano button on their website LOL, that's crazy. Shimano is over advertised.
Super User Raul Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 Two of the worse reels I've owned were Quantum, the other was Abu. The only Quantum rod I've owned was the worse rod I've owned. So I don't think I'll purchase any of their products in the future.
Super User Dan: Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 "Quantum hater alert" All i see on the internet is shimano shimano shimano and shimano. If you go to TWH, they even have a shimano button on their website LOL, that's crazy. Shimano is over advertised. Besides TW, where do you see Shimano advertised online? I agree that they get more air time on some of the blogs but I'd hesitate to say that's due to more advertising. As far as TV and tournament stuff, Quantum has always advertised more than Abu and WAY more than Daiwa or Shimano.
bootytrain Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 "Quantum hater alert" All i see on the internet is shimano shimano shimano and shimano. If you go to TWH, they even have a shimano button on their website LOL, that's crazy. Shimano is over advertised.I'd actually have to give a d@mn about quantum first before I started to hate them.. I dont see any "quantum hate" anywhere, its just that nobody really cares about them... So try again.
Super User aavery2 Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 while Zebco has a long storied past in American fishing, I think most of us think back to the model 202 and 33 when we hear the name. Unfortunately spincast reels are most often associated with entry level beginner type equipment. I think the association from Zebco to Quantum has hurt Quantum some. Also I think they have too many products, many of them are lower end equipment and frankly a lot of them are lower quality. I wish they would just pick 7-8 models and really develop them instead of working of 17 -20 models. Quantum also hurt themselves some several years back with reels that had poor quality control, the finishes on the reels were very bad. Every major brand has reels in their lineup that are great, Shimano has the Curado, Daiwa has the Zillion, Abu has the Premier, etc. etc. Quantum needs to establish a reel in their lineup that has the same known consistency for quality. Not bad reels, bad marketing in my opinion. 2
LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 while Zebco has a long storied past in American fishing, I think most of us think back to the model 202 and 33 when we hear the name. Unfortunately spincast reels are most often associated with entry level beginner type equipment. I think the association from Zebco to Quantum has hurt Quantum some. Also I think they have too many products, many of them are lower end equipment and frankly a lot of them are lower quality. I wish they would just pick 7-8 models and really develop them instead of working of 17 -20 models. Quantum also hurt themselves some several years back with reels that had poor quality control, the finishes on the reels were very bad. Every major brand has reels in their lineup that are great, Shimano has the Curado, Daiwa has the Zillion, Abu has the Premier, etc. etc. Quantum needs to establish a reel in their lineup that has the same known consistency for quality. Not bad reels, bad marketing in my opinion. Quantum flagship reel has always been the KVD reel. Any person will tell you that. If quantum used to have bad quality control, than shimano has bad QC now because i gave shimano more than 5 try and all have failed me, I even use a shimano saltwater reel for bass and it broke on a 5 pound bass, and that gear was meant for tarpon and snook LOL.
TNBassin' Posted June 28, 2014 Author Posted June 28, 2014 Quantum's flagship reel is the EXO or the KVD reel?
LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Quantum's flagship reel is the EXO or the KVD reel? KVD is their Flagship. Just like shimano flagship is curado, its also the best selling reel shimano makes in the freshwater section. Daiwa i think is the Zillon.
bootytrain Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 KVD is their Flagship. Just like shimano flagship is curado, its also the best selling reel shimano makes in the freshwater section. Daiwa i think is the Zillon. Curado is shimano flagship? As if you had no credibility before lol. 6
Super User aavery2 Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 Quantum flagship reel has always been the KVD reel. Any person will tell you that. If quantum used to have bad quality control, than shimano has bad QC now because i gave shimano more than 5 try and all have failed me, I even use a shimano saltwater reel for bass and it broke on a 5 pound bass, and that gear was meant for tarpon and snook LOL. Well I quess I have been around fishing a little longer than you, because I can remember a time when there was no KVD reel. Honestly if you asked me what their top reel was I probably would not have known, I assumed that the new Mag reel was their flagship model now. Again, I think it is a case of too many models and poor marketing. One thing I find odd is when one of the major three companies come out with a new reel, there is talk about it for a month of so before, when Quantum released their Mag. reel I seen no advertising or heard no chatter about it on any of the forums I attend. I can tell you in my neck of the woods, Quantum has very little following. There are a few guys that own the Smoke or EXO, but as a whole their market share in our area is very low.
Super User iabass8 Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 KVD is their Flagship. Just like shimano flagship is curado, its also the best selling reel shimano makes in the freshwater section. Daiwa i think is the Zillon. Before you begin on an endless spew of nonsense...perhaps have an understanding as to what a "flagship" reel is... 1
Super User aavery2 Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 KVD is their Flagship. Just like shimano flagship is curado, its also the best selling reel shimano makes in the freshwater section. Daiwa i think is the Zillon. The Curado and Zillion are these company's workhorse reels, but they have others of much higher quality that would be considered their flagship reels. When I hear Daiwa flagship I think Steez and Shimano I think Calais. But even these have changed. 1
TorqueConverter Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 KVD is their Flagship. Just like shimano flagship is curado, its also the best selling reel shimano makes in the freshwater section. Daiwa i think is the Zillon. Flagship is a tricky subject. If there is such things as Halo reels then the Steez would be Daiwa's Halo reel for example, and "Flagship" would be reserved for reels that are the most well rounded, including MSRP. "Halo" as I've seen it used in the automotive industry, is reserved for high end products that are sold at a loss to convey a image about the brand name. The Lexus LSF is sold at a loss to pimp an image of Lexus cars as being sporty and hip at millennials, for example. My point in the mindless rant, if I have one, is that halo reels don't exist and flagship is probably best reserved for a companies higher end reels. In any case, the KVD reels are no flagship and are a modern product built to cash in on KVD's household name status. I guess historically the Energy would be their flagship in the past with the Exo/Smoke being their flagship reels today. 2
LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Don't confuse Flagship with high end reels. The exo came out because of competition. Reels are getting lighter and lighter so quantum to stay in the competition they came out with one of the lightest reels they ever came out and they came out with the tour MG that is even lighter. The shimano Calais DC is their high end reel $650. Shimano focuses on the curado more than any other reel that's why they keep making improvements every other year
Super User iabass8 Posted June 28, 2014 Super User Posted June 28, 2014 Shimanos flagship reel is the antares/metanium... Not the curado... 2
TorqueConverter Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 I forgot in all the silliness, that I own a few Quantums. I've got a 1st gen Accurist, some sort of weird blue Code KVD reel and a current gen Accurist PT. They haven't been bad reels to me and I actually like the Accurist PT a little more than my BPS Pro Qualifier. It looks a lot better sitting on a Veritas too. Quantum reels in the $99 - $120 range are definitely worth a look. Why aren't they more popular? Any post on "best $100 reel" is blanked with BPS PQ recommendations. This has a tendency to push a lot of people over to the PQ and then this generates additional blanket responses for future "best $100 reel" threads. Once hegemony begins it's hard for outsiders to break in. It doesn't help that Quantum is constantly changing their reels, sometimes just for the sake of changing. Really, how many Accurists have their been in the past 7 years? 1
LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Shimanos flagship reel is the antares/metanium... Not the curado... LOL i never even heard of those reels. Maybe their not as popular as curado, so their is no way that those are shimanos flagship. Flagship also has to be the best selling reels to become a flagship, If it does not sell, then its not a flagship, I dont think the average consumer will pay $600 for a reel. LOL some of you guys here are funny and are very denial. We all understand that you love shimano so much that thats the only reel you'll probably buy.
bootytrain Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Before you begin on an endless spew of nonsense...perhaps have an understanding as to what a "flagship" reel is... Dudes just trolling 2
LMB KING Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Dudes just trolling Sorry I am old school I don't know what that means. Any how. fare well. too many Quantum haters here. I'm done.
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