The Emperor Has No Clothes!!

"Lets face it, if there was a majority of people acoustically informed the industry will collapse to essentials..."

That's what is often said about "global warming." Welcome to the jungle.

There was some Formula One champion who said his main secret to racing success was "brake management" by which he meant using them as sparingly as possible in order to extend their functional life, and apparently he was a supreme master at doing this. Somewhere in there is a metaphor for trying to restrain oneself when faced with the "embarrassment of riches" that is the modern candy store of audio components.

Heck guys I wouldn't concern yourselves with "looking silly." Many's the time when I am having a party at my home (my wife's friends usually) and the non-audiophiles gather around to ogle the system that they snicker when they see the "old fashioned" glowing tubes which they assumed had ended along about WW2. Most of them give me a look which seems to say, "Who is the anachronistic old fart?"