eh, shawn flemming seems to be really open and honest from my conversations with him.
he replaced 3 15" xxx's in his dads explorer with 3 15" Q's and said his dad did not like the way the Q's sounded. and he said he agreed with his dad. after about 3 weeks of pounding he said the Q's were really starting to break in and his dad (as well as himself) actually liked them over his previous xxx's and they hit the upper end a lot better. IDK, to me that says something.
i saw something similar with another member on this forum. he down talked the Q for a while and still hyped his XXX...then a couple weeks later, he said he was thinking of getting another Q...