Who's winning?

Socrates is not satisfied or unsatisfied. Socrates is not a passive consumer of cheap speakers or highly costlier one. Socrates think, experiment and learn acoustics with anything cheap or costly and end always appreciating what he did.

A question not well posed will gave useless answers.

«No one enter here who did not know acoustics» Plato pupil of Socrates reading Audiogon thread.

Is ignorance really bliss? I believe I would be happier not knowing a bunch of stuff I do, but I wouldn't trade the knowledge for that happiness. 

My oh my

what a weird set of posts….

Brings to mind ‘An infinite number of monkeys’

To be, or not to be….that is the gerzornan plan. Bob Newhart

I could be happy with a $500 pair of speakers if that was my budget...can’t imagine spending 30K on speakers I didn’t like

Those who enjoy the music no matter source, speakers, etc are winners.