We are buying and reviewing gear all wrong

Find your niche, Start a company doing just that. See how many years it takes to stop bleeding money? A few audio companies used to offer complete systems.           
Integrated amplifiers are becoming more popular. Maybe it is time to have all in ones...          
Actually the way forward would be self powered speakers.. Then all you need is a combined source. Internet connect with streaming, some capacity for storage, display... Basically a dedicated computer for audio. Laptop connected (for keyboard and screen), to a dedicated audio computer box to self powered speakers.         
build it and they will come.           
Too late for me. I have passive speakers, an amp, five preamps, three turntables, way over a dozen CD spinners... piles of LP and CDs...

Active speakers is not a very good idea - amps don't exactly like vibration. Besides, you cannot use other amps. This is not audiophile approach. Integrated is not quite an audiophile approach either, with maybe a few very best qualify, maybe.

Eric--I somewhat already follow this concept as do others. When I go to an audio show I pay close attention to the entire "system" that is being presented. If you hear a system you love, and you can afford it, then it doesn't make a lot of sense, to me anyway, to vary from the formula presented. But, what usually happens is the entire system is financially beyond reach--so it is acquired over time and during that time variations on the "presented system" are experienced in one's home. Now, the listener is faced with a unique combination providing a sound quality that the listener didn't hear at the show (or the showroom). Is it preferential to what the listener previously heard? Ah, this is what makes the audiophile world go round and round. 

Oh, and I apologize for mispelling "Erik."
Regards
Al

B&O. Part success; part failure.