Are your systems more Plato or Aristotle?

Eldartford, that must mean your speakers are like Courtney Love?

My system is a Hegelian dialectic between the subject, the listener and the object the audio system. The subject and object are mediated by the music reproduced by the system.The subject is also in an another dialectical process between the listener and the listener's historicity within society. And this is mediated by what you listen to. I will also pose an another dialectical consideration, that the subject and object will spiral in the dialectical process until only great music is listened to on a great system. A great Hegelian and Enlightened Utopia!

Buscis2...Not exactly. Maggies are more refined like Audrey Hepburn.

Eldartford, Ozfly, Buscis2, Shubertmaniac: pretty much everything and everyone is either Platonic or Aristotelian and that includes Arnold Schwarznegger, Audrey Hepburn, and Hegel.

Ozfly, depends on the school of thought, but I believe substance is defined as the core and essence the extension of that core (mode). Substance is not subject to change while essence will depending on a number of extended attributes. As such, essence does not exist without substance. I guess in audio terms, substance would be the recording, it's essence (what we hear) being extended by (our equipments) applicable attributes. What does this all mean, I have no idea. Actually, an intersting side note, it was "audiophilism" that got me off the lost lands of philosophy. Or rather, it was philosophy that lead me here. Not sure if I'm better off, but I'm having a heck of a time.
Andy2, Descartes will set you free my man.