The lack of participation here, may be a sign of who/what this hobby is/has become? Is it more about the equipment or the music?
I ask myself, Why... why aren't the answers flooding in from all of the members here? Really, it's kind of amazing!
This hobby, this thread, is boiled down to "the music". Therefore, why should it be so difficult for us to express the music that "moves us"!?
This should be The one thing that binds us all together.
...and the "Beat Goes On"...