Who's winning?

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. 

External judgement, why should you care. Internal judgement, whatever floats your boat, you make up a story in your mind, this your truth, if goals all there is, missing out on much. $30k speaker person is audiophile, this is a journey filled with many ups and downs, learning experiences, soundbar person not on this journey, end of story.

When you frame humanities in terms of winning/losing, you've already lost.

That said, I'll take the speakers for $30k.