georgehifi,
My father owns a record store and I've been into music my entire life. I've been an "audiophile" for over 30 years. As I try to grow as a person and "audiophile", my goal is to be a little more measured regarding what I post. I'm not a shill for anything, I no longer use hyperbole to describe differences between components, and try very hard to be more descriptive when describing differences between components. When "we" say something destroys, blows away, without being descriptive, we shortchange the individual and our hobby. The truth is at a certain level it comes down to preference, more so than one component totally destroying the other. e.g. I listened to a pair of Magico M2 with the same components that I have. The room certainly impacted the sound, but despite being twice the price of my speakers, they didn't destroy them. They present details differently and the soundstage was pushed back more, but it wasn't like I heard something that I've never heard.
