About users with hidden agendas

Audio is mainly acoustic not the gear...

Basically good gear will do... ( aiming at the best design there is in the world make no sense for most people anyway )

But nothing will replace acoustic...

Sound is subjective until it intersects with science,

i say the same thing than you but less economically: things begin to be interesting at this intersection between subjective and objective... Why ?

Because save for some people, learning is a PROCESS in time AROUND this intersection... My subjective ecaluation has changed each week for almost the last 2 years... I was learning how to put in place the conditions to increase the value of my subjective evaluation...

Buying something and writing that this is good and this is my subjective ruling evaluation means not a lot... Only the objective process guiding us to our subjective evaluation means something FOR ALL...

Selling a piece of gear, even a good one and saying thaty only subjective appreciation means something is preposterous...Audio reviews are indicative of a trend in bulk numbers but thats all.. Each separate subjective evaluation means almost nothing save if the reviewer guide us through an objective learning path to increase our own subjective perception...But most revewers sell gear... very few educate...

It is acoustic 101 who was my  guiding rule ...

I bought nothing else than basic gear and my ratio S.Q. price is over the roof...

Thanks to acoustic treatment and mechanical acoustic control and tuning of the Speakers/ room...

And vibrations control could cost very low...

And cleaning the electrical noise floor too...

i dont understand that most people cannot figure this ....

And go on buying costly upgrade or partial costly "tweak" solution...

Acoustics play a big part on sound reproduction, and it is a science too. Just like with painting, music, photography, glass blowing and cooking, you need to understand and have a relationship with the basic principles that govern your art.

Knowing about harmonics does not mean you can make music and the opposite is true. If you don't know harmonics and rhythm it is extremely likely your music will not stand the test of time.

@jerryg123 we are in very good company. Once a doctor of mine who had one PhD in history and another in Autism, told me never in the history of humanity there has been an autistic person leading the world to war or genocide; and that the vast majority of transcendental scientific achievements that have made this world a better place to live, have been the product of people in the spectrum. I can live with this :)