Best Forum to hear experienced audiophiles exchange thoughts?

@mike_in_nc 

I’m someone who thinks that room acoustics are > 50% of the sound and that boutique cables are way, way, way down on the list of things worth spending money on if good sound is your objective.

Agree with you 100%. Many just either can't or don't want to go to the trouble of dealing with room acoustics. A bad room is in direct collision with what good sound actually requires. The result is that many are forced into bad faith -- in other words, they insist that this or that factor (or component) makes a big difference, when in fact they have excluded the room and just become more emphatic to compensate.

Very well said @mike_in_nc I love the Hoffman Forums but find more hardcore gear talk here so I frequent and enjoy both.

Thanks to all who responded. No one mentioned the AGon Private

membership (paid) option.  Anyone tried it?

Now Let me change the question slightly.

What do you subscribe to in terms of magazines?

Which YouTubers do you subscribe to?

Which shows do you attend?

Which retailer do you find to always give good counsel?

Where else do you go to learn what is new?

Thanks

When I lived in L.A. I'd try to get to every audio show within a hundred miles. I made myself a nuisance at every high end dealer in the area, and purchased gear at nearly every one. For a while my wife worked for Todd Garfinkle of MA Recordings and I'd be able to tag along to the gigantic trade show in Vegas (what was it called again, CES?). When I was a kid I'd go with my dad to the yearly High-Fi show in Downtown L.A. It was there where I first heard Stereophonic Sound and later Quadraphonic.

What can I say, I have a genuine jones for well-recorded music.

audiokarma and vinyl engine offer quality of discussion far superior to what i find on this forum and a membership loaded folks with a great breadth and depth of hifi experience.

ive used polk audio forum, steve hoffman (which is good), audio circle, USAM CAM forums, audiokarma, vinyl engine, audio science, hifi haven, audiokarma, this one and probably a few others.

too frequently the discussions on this audiogon get overrun by folks with no manners, no sense and nothing to offer but their pet obsessions and BS attitudes. too many here to sabotage sensible discussion or at least clutter it up over and over. often its the same people over and over crappin in the sandbox. and theres no block feature.