Tvad, I applaud your dedication to this hobby and I truly wish you derive an enormous degree of personal satisfaction for being a practicing audiophile, but I still strongly disagree with you on a key issue. Tapping your toes and grooving to the music is great, but even non-audiophiles tap their toes. As I see it audiophiles are about listening to music reproduced with a high degree of fidelity to the source material. In your 6/13 post you state that you are not interested in fidelity, only whether it makes you feel good. It's real easy to put together a system that sounds good. Pump up the bass, give it a big syrupy midrange and roll off the high end and even well schooled audiophiles will be tempted. It's even easier putting together an "accurate" system with vanishingly low distortion and ruler flat frequency response. What makes our hobby challenging is putting together an accurate system that also sounds good. Just tapping your toes won't get you there.
Boa2, how do you know that I'm not one of the brothers in the SUV?
Boa2, how do you know that I'm not one of the brothers in the SUV?