Why do you give bad advice?

The OP's sentiments are very familiar to me. I believe that a badly asked question deserves one of two responses: Ignore it completely, or seek to clarify and help. Most other responses are evidence of something else going on.

May I mamoo dogface thru the banana patch?

How's that?

Hey, Watts!  It's not all that bad all the time. *G*  That particular forum had all the earmarks of becoming a 'black hole' around page 2.  I'd return just to see if it had calmed down...see if anyone had mopped up yet...;)

Mapman, it just seems that it's become increasingly difficult to parse good from bad in the advice whirl'd.  The item under discussion might work spectacularly for one user and absolutely suck for another.  Likely due to the variations in what said item finds itself in, attached to a whole different set of parameters....
I have this suspicion that, given two identical computers, that even if one was to match keystroke to keystroke and maintaining absolute duplication, that the little buggers would still respond differently after awhile.  Applying this to AI makes me slightly paranoid, but I pick and choose what I let into my life.  Including advice.....;)

I look for advice from someone whose taste I share and then look for such a product at a good price. In this way I have been able to even order products from overseas which were not available here. Granted that I am vertran audiophile there is a market for any Good product and I have not bought any produce on personal audition in memory. The conditions are seldom good enough to get a good idea. I use to go to the Chicago CES and remember when one exhibiter took off the mattresses and put them on the walls to deaden the sound. On another I was sitting next to a mag writer who was listening to a speaker with a satisfied look on his face. I found it unlistenable. 

For example some years ago there was a speaker I wanted to hear and I drove from Southern Indiana to Cincinnati and bought them ear unheard as they were in very good condition. They proved to be excellent but not my taste. I sold them to an audiophile in Lexington who ran a large  store for the same price I paid. I have just orederd an amp from Califarnia at a good price. I have never heard one but I know the brand. Start cheap and learn your own taste. With audiogon and others you can experiment.