Best Forum to hear experienced audiophiles exchange thoughts?

@danager don’t forget about the improvements an audiophile router can make with this confounded site we are on currently as well eh? 😉

Most recently my actual purchases have been influenced most by what hifi and Darko websites in that I find the info provided by both to be consistently both practical and reliable. 

It’s an imperfect world. That includes hifi forums. I’ve found this one to be most informative even though the signal to noise ratio can be fairly low at times. That’s because, succeed or not,  the “high end” users here do tend to strive for the best. The tricky part is always to synthesize as much info out of the chatter as possible in order to learn.