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

Great thread. I believe, as a whole, that society has lost a level of common civility...that simply being nice to one another is just not that important anymore. And that’s a shame. 

My big beef with the forum is that there are many people who take themselves/this hobby way to seriously. A great example is any thread having to deal with MQA. While there are many of us here who are simply enjoying what amounts to a feature on our Tidal subscription, there are many who will turn that into a behavior that will cause musicians/artists to go bankrupt, cause record companies to line their vaults with cash, allowing them to lock the “crown jewels” in said vaults, cause the death of FLAC & other formats, etc., etc., etc...and that all this must reflect in someway on my character in general, because if I’m ok with the above, I must be ok with cheating on the SAT, cutting in the TSA line & killing stray puppies! (I condone NONE of these behaviors, for the record...)

I guess my point is to reinforce what others here have said: it’s ok & natural to disagree...we are, afterall, expressing our opinions. But if you disagree, limit it to the discussion at hand, don’t attack someone’s individual character. I’m pretty certain that enjoying music however you may is the real point to all this, and not stressing about how someone else is enjoying there music...

Just my $0.02 worth. Be nice to someone today, please...

Arvin

Geez I am so sorry that I may have hurt someone's feelings.  So anyway all of your systems suck except for mine!  HA, I said it!  Kidding.  The entire journey takes a lifetime, so enjoy the ride and help each other to learn and discover more.  Happy Listening.

...no mine really does suck.....

It seems to me there are a variety of basic characters here. There's those who don't know much and want to learn. There are some who know some stuff. There are those who really know nothing and come here to peddle their myths. 
I feel I'm somewhere between the first and second type. I don't know everything by a long shot, but I know enough to recognize nonsense when I see it. When I see folks show up boasting myths or claiming they invented the 4 mode of transistor operation or the next frontier in bass reproduction (all things I've actually run across here), I don't think it's out of line to put some pointed questions to those claims. 
If somebody can't tolerate their claims being scrutinized like an adult, then those people should refrain from expressing themselves. It would probably help if people could be honest about what they like. It would be cool if people didn't lord their decades of buying gear over people as if that passes for technical knowledge, too. I think a lot of problems would go away if all that stopped.