I've got a whole thread on the Moabs. Unfortunately like most threads here the people with nothing to add just love to add nothing and so you have to skip past the majority of posts to get to the ones worth reading. Even so there's a lot in there.
Along the way the subject came up how do you choose components without being able to audition? Isn't that necessary? Its helpful, sure, and in the beginning more or less required. But if you put in the time and effort listening to a lot of stuff, and reading and comparing what you've heard to what you've read, well then after a while its not nearly so necessary.
Its been about a dozen years now since I heard anything before buying, and in that time I bought the Melody integrated, Conqueror tone arm, Koetsu Black Goldline cartridge, Herron VTPH2A phono stage, Synergistic CTS speaker cables, and Atmosphere IC, Blue and Orange fuses, PHT, ECT, HFT, Dayton sub amp and DBA, and finally Moab speakers. Oh and PPT TC, eCards, Mats, and more.
Every single one of these was selected the exact same way. First I figure out what it is that I want. In the past it was all those other things. Now its just the amp. So I know to pay attention for anything and everything about amps. In particular tube integrateds, since I know them to be the best value for money.
Then I search around for everything I can find, but really only paying attention to what people who actually heard them first hand. Even then I really only pay attention to how they describe the sound. Nothing else matters to me. Only how it sounds. Like with the Moabs, there were a lot of comments about them needing or really coming alive with high power SS amps. With 98dB speakers? How can this be? Turns out its not. Its crap. Mine come plenty alive with 50 tube watts. Plenty. Once again it pays to ignore everything but how people say it sounds.
So in every case, at least a dozen components over a dozen years, every single one of them when I got it home actually sounded just as expected from all the comments. Every single one. Even though not a one of those people making the comments was using the component with any of my components.
If ever there was proof synergy or system matching or whatever you want to call it is a waste of time, this is it. What's funny is not that people keep pushing it, but that the other huge waste of time- measurements- is another one they all push. The only measurements I bother with are speaker sensitivity and phono cartridge output. Even then they are only used as a filter. Speakers less than 90 dB are out. Ditto carts less than .4mV. There are too many easy to drive examples to be worth the trouble.
I can go into details as much as you want but really its the general principles such as these that matter. Because there's a million different ways to build a great system. I've seen them all over the map yet still sound really good. For every principle that seems iron clad there's some guy totally getting away with flaunting it. Probably because so much of this stuff just doesn't work at all the way people think.
My system is pretty well described on my system page. I get stuff for testing that is not yet on the market, can't talk about that. And I take stuff apart and can't tell people about it because it gets into the valuable proprietary information someone is making their living with. Anything outside those two areas though I am happy to help.
