@rspyder You gave me a good laugh with your post. The “WBF crowd is more intelligent, with better equipment”. You sure are drunk on the WBF Kool-Aid.
Most WBF members do not know much about the science and technologies involved in sound reproduction. Many will even admit to it and follow it up with that they don’t need to. If you take a look at the owners of WBF. You will see that they hire professionals to come and set up their equipment and fine tune their systems. The reason I bring that up is that I’m a firm believer in that you will not excel at things that you don’t know about. To each their own, but I rather work on my own systems myself.
Regarding the manufaturers-dealers-owners-centric choke-hold moderation at WBF, well if you enjoy being pushed around and dominated then have at it. Some of us aren’t patsy’s.
You keep on believing that there’s something special there. When I was there I would asked the members to share audio recordings of their wonderful and extraordinarily expensive systems to hear what they are working with, and most of them are not confident enough to showcase how great their systems sound, they rather write about it than demonstrate it. All this has been said before so I will leave it at that.
As they say, you don’t know what you don’t know and you sound like one of the ones who will never know. Keep thinking that you at WBF are something special……you better think again.