I think there's a great community spirit in the audiogon forums, and it's fantastic so many are willing to share their experience. It's great of some like digital. I enjoy it sometimes. The 10 best-sounding CDs in my collection sound really good to me. But my ears have started to recognize the limitations of digital, and I think we have been programmed by the industry to believe that digital is modern (more precise, cleaner, lossless, convinient for modern lifestyles, etc.). Long story short, I have simply fallen for vinyl and tubes from a purely sonic experience. My local dealer says digital can create the same feeling, but that it costs ten times as much. I listened to a 20k dac and was not convinced