Please Read and express your feelings and opinions....

@amg56 so sorry to hear of your cancer and so thankful that you exist.  Music lovers are music to my ears, and you are one.

What makes a forum go downhill is the idea that the person is the issue to attack, not the ideas from a person.

Ideas can be right, or wrong, or neither one (taste, experience, feelings).  We can't attack people for having ideas, only for being clearly unwilling to look at other ideas.

Energy flows downhill and the President is putting out some very cynical and disrespectful and contentious energy for the last 18 months, and that energy has certainly crept in here as well.  So we all have to double down on our humanity right now. 

Audiophiles all need to understand that creating a playback system is your form of creativity, and as such there are no wrong answers.  You all do not write, record or perform music (by and large) you play it back as an expression of who you are.  Some folks are more analytical, some more emotional, neither is wrong.

Good thread.

Respect ..... thats all it needs, for other peoples opinions
Respect !!!

Respect is the word sadly in the age of hiding behind keyboards and not talking directly people tend to show their real side just not their public side. I was "attacked" for spending good $$ on the audioquest Fire for my turntable on a  VPI forum! It really at the end of the day did not bother me other than the superior smarmy tone of the "attacker". I dunno of all the BS i see on these forums it seems cables are the big one. Just mutual respect and and maybe we all police the board together?

Personally, I feel that the worst offenders are folks who own a certain piece of gear and come out swinging even at the slightest hint of criticism regarding their gear of choice. See what happened on the Goldenear Reference thread. The OP was asking for opinions from people who have either heard OR own the speakers. I chimed in and provided my opinion. I was upfront about the fact that I had heard it at dealer showrooms twice, but one of the posters started calling the opinions as 'laughable' and 'crap' and accusing me of doing a great disservice. I quickly bailed out of that discussion, but this is another form of bullying where the owners resort to tough language to drive out dissenting viewpoints. 
The irony is that the same poster is ranting about Tekton fanboys on this thread. Lol!

I don't understand why people get so defensive about what they own. For me, unless I am the manufacturer or at least a major shareholder, I just don't understand how people get so emotional about these things.

arafiq - ....See what happened on the Goldenear Reference thread. The OP was asking for opinions from people who have either heard OR own the speakers. I chimed in and provided my opinion. I was upfront about the fact that I had heard it at dealer showrooms twice, but one of the posters started calling the opinions as 'laughable' and 'crap' and accusing me of doing a great disservice. I quickly bailed out of that discussion, but this is another form of bullying where the owners resort to tough language to drive out dissenting viewpoints. ...

Hi arafiq. I'm sure you're aware I am not the one you are referring to. That said, while I cannot speak/write for the particular poster you are referring to, I shall extend an apology simply on the basis that I'm a Golden Ear Triton Reference owner who also happened to post in that same thread. All the best.