Like your perspective and approach.
The main issue I see in obtaining information needed to purchase is weeding between those who are providing personal information about actual purchase and use and the larger camp of people using the site to sell their own products or abuse the process. So, a thread is started about product A and tube enthusiasts hijack the thread to try and sell their wares -- claiming some connection with product A that might or might not exist.
SO, think that a friendlier environment would be created if, somehow, audiophiles could be distinguished from professional retailers. Hard to do, I suspect...