Ever notice: whenever you’ve found a component(passive or active), tweak, room treatment, cable, or ANYTHING that enhances your musical pleasure, or- provides an experience that brings you closer to the original recorded event(even if YOU did the recording), there’s always someone out there(especially, in here), that’s never seen or heard your system, never been near your listening environment, or(in all likelihood) any of the music venues you’ve visited(certainly: not the same seating, whether audience or sound booth), that just HAS to assert, "THAT CAN’T BE RIGHT"? It MUST be some type of distortion/coloration! YOUR system CAN’T provide as much as a simulacrum, of actual live music(regardless of how familiar YOU might be, with the real thing)! It CAN’T POSSIBLY be enjoyed at realistic SPLs(regardless of whether acoustic or reinforced originally, how long you’ve been involved in music as a profession, or- what comprises your system/room acoustics)! AND: YOU’RE JUST WRONG(irrespective of how many others have drawn the same conclusion, or- experienced the same effects/results, as you)! You know the type and their songs(AudiogoN’s Top Hits): "If yours does it and mine doesn’t; yours is wrong(or-it’s distortion)!" "If you can hear it and I can’t; it’s your imagination!" "If it works for you, but- I haven’t TRIED it, can’t HEAR it, or- it didn’t work in MY home; it’s Snake Oil!" Enjoy the music / PAN THE BS!