I like this forum even though I'm a playwright in a small country so, poor as they come. Nevertheless there's a wealth of knowledge here that you don't get on other forums once you know who to listen to. Almarg, for instance: I've learnt tons off that guy. When I first got into this lunacy about ten years ago I realised how on to it Al was and read everything that he'd posted. Schubert, Mapman, and Atmasphere (among others) have also helped a great deal. Thanks to their knowledge, and despite my relative poverty, I've been able to put together a vintage system (for next to nothing, maybe $2,000) that in the late eighties would have cost me the inflation-adjusted sum of $10,000+. It sounds fantastic, and I couldn't be happier, despite having OCD. My lack of money has actually helped in this: You have to read broadly and understand how music reproduction works before you make your decisions, rather than plonking down tons of money, endlessly changing components and getting frustrated because you missed the chapter on speaker-room interface and treatments.
I have no problem with people discussing $50,000 speakers but I think this forum is (and hopefully continues to be) much more than that.
