The myth of "best" in audio needs to be addressed by all of us

The best is the enemy of good enough. My system is good enough for me and that works.

Yeah, but "best" stimulates/animates the conversation. The proverbial click bait. Let the ego rage!

Anybody else want to fight the harmful myth of "best" in audio?

If anybody read my posts i went  fighting that for the last 2 years...

There is no absolute best, speakers,dac,or amplifiers....

There is no absolute supremacy of tubes over S.S.

There is no vinyl supremacy over digital nor the opposite either...

BUT

There is an absolute supremacy of ACOUSTIC science and experience over electronics products, because we all listen to our speakers/room/ears with our two EARS....The most important part of this family being the room/ears by a huge gap....

Fine tuning the audio system, and controlling in the right way the 3 working embeddings dimensions where ANY system is immersed, mechanical,electrical and acoustical, this is the KEY....

Especially ACOUSTIC controls....

Anybody boasting about his alleged superior electronic design, speakers, amplifier, dac, turntables, is naive, not because this is not true, but because this is not ENOUGH.... Any good design at any price must be rightfully embedded to work optimally....

Especially in his acoustical working embedding dimension....

Then i boast about my listening experiments....  😁😁😊😊😎😎

 Do the same, seat and listen, trust yourself and trust your ears and be creative....No cost here....

My best to all....

Anybody else want to fight the harmful myth of "best" in audio?

Anybody else want to fight the harmful truth of nihilism in audio?

Well this is one of the best threads I've seen in a while.  Being new, I was prone to believe that the 'experienced' here would determine what I should buy and how I must assemble my system.  However, enough posts of this nature taught me to evaluate each post, recommendation, opinion or review with a view towards what the component/tweak/system actually sounds like, and whether that sound is one that I find appealing or will work with the component(s) I already have.  Ultimately, of course this is a subjective pursuit -- but where to start?  Even the die-hard discussions as to what the best format is -- digital or vinyl -- and the like, were very useful.  These threads introduced me to the issues at stake and, to some extent, the work and costs involved.  I applaud the passionate, but absolutely value the occasional level headed assessment of this pursuit by those members who have actually tried many different components and approaches.  We are lucky to have them and even the engineers who try to explain what is happening and what the limits of this that or the other thing may be. Not being an electrical engineer, most of this is lost on me.  But, nonetheless in less than a year, by following this forum and reading many reviews I have managed to put together a system that sounds fantastic to me, is tolerated by my wife and thoroughly enjoyed by our guests.  Couldn't have done it without this group.