@jonnie22 - I don't take any issue with you reporting what you heard, just with reporting what you *assume*, yet cannot possibly *know*, i.e. that "...
people who like Wilson are simply not aware of other brands...". Such statements simply demean people who have, indeed, heard many, many brands, and still prefer their Wilsons. You don't like them, fine, no problem, many don't.
We'll just have to agree to disagree on the subject of making one's own sonic preferences contingent upon other's opinions. I'm afraid the concept of "making sure i'm not hearing things" doesn't make sense to me in this context. I hear what I hear, that's what is real to me. I can't perceive what *you* or anyone else perceives, in the way you perceive it, but even should my preferred sound drive the audiophile masses screaming from my listening room in horror, it would have no affect on my perceptions, and certainly wouldn't make my perceptions *wrong*. In the context of personal enjoyment, perceptions cannot be wrong, by definition. To me, that's the right thing to do.
YMMV
We'll just have to agree to disagree on the subject of making one's own sonic preferences contingent upon other's opinions. I'm afraid the concept of "making sure i'm not hearing things" doesn't make sense to me in this context. I hear what I hear, that's what is real to me. I can't perceive what *you* or anyone else perceives, in the way you perceive it, but even should my preferred sound drive the audiophile masses screaming from my listening room in horror, it would have no affect on my perceptions, and certainly wouldn't make my perceptions *wrong*. In the context of personal enjoyment, perceptions cannot be wrong, by definition. To me, that's the right thing to do.
YMMV