Current speaker threads are boring

"For me a great speaker, regardless of price, simply gets out of the way so quickly that I lose my attention of them and I am instead drawn to the music alone"

I like this.😃

Kenny.

Andrew, how is JM Labs Grand Utopia? 
And I don't think there are "giant killers", not to mention the stupid and violent language of this phrase, it's a myth for poor people.

I like this forum even though I'm a playwright in a small country so, poor as they come. Nevertheless there's a wealth of knowledge here that you don't get on other forums once you know who to listen to. Almarg, for instance: I've learnt tons off that guy. When I first got into this lunacy about ten years ago I realised how on to it Al was and read everything that he'd posted. Schubert, Mapman, and Atmasphere (among others) have also helped a great deal. Thanks to their knowledge, and despite my relative poverty, I've been able to put together a vintage system (for next to nothing, maybe $2,000) that in the late eighties would have cost me the inflation-adjusted sum of $10,000+. It sounds fantastic, and I couldn't be happier, despite having OCD. My lack of money has actually helped in this: You have to read broadly and understand how music reproduction works before you make your decisions, rather than plonking down tons of money, endlessly changing components and getting frustrated because you missed the chapter on speaker-room interface and treatments. 

I have no problem with people discussing $50,000 speakers but I think this forum is (and hopefully continues to be) much more than that.

$2000 is huge money in a poor country, you must be doing alright.
Ralph of Atma-Sphere says a lot of helpful things. Does a lot of self-advertising as well, part of it is negative self-advertising.