I hope everyone is staying safe during this time. I haven't been up here in a while but I think about the future of HEA all the time of course. Well not so much HEA (boat anchors) but listening systems in general.
I received another PM yesterday from an Agon member who made the switch from HE to Low Mass and is still amazed at what he was missing for so many years looking at his stacks of equipment in the middle of his soundstage as compared to his Low Mass equipment on Platforms. His system (electronics) is about a foot off the floor now, instead of the 3-5feet of filled racks that he has removed "never to return to". "Listening to my soundstage is more enjoyable than staring at those boxes of metal".
What I sometimes am amazed at is how many people in the hobby are still placing their components right in the middle of their soundstages completely messing with the speaker/room/ear relationship. For this reason alone I choose the small components. The other reason is when you hear an amp costing 100bucks totally beating up on a $30,000.00 amp it makes you giggle (maybe cry) just a little at the guys still buying into a mistake, or at least the past.
stay well
michael