Trivializing AudiogoN...........ie: what I have is the best...

Any comment that ends with "see", needs to be read by the person that wrote it. 

erik,  I agree.  The freedom to like and/or not like is, thankfully, real. In giving feedback on this, or any other, fourm it would seem to be in good faith to not do the "mine is the best" recommendations. 

But hey, what I have is truly the best and I think everyone should have the same thing...kind of the Karl Marx type of audiopile. 

plaw, I appreciate your courage to put your experiences in print.

I would add on the + side, Magnepan, ARC, CJ and I will take some time to think about other + and a few -.

Hi DeKay,
Just kind of thinking out loud.  I have, esp. in my younger days, wanted to think anything I had was the best, from cars, to audio...and I am sorry to say, even the mate I had.  When I had a fair amount of money and power I fell into the "arm candy" trap and paid some prices for that.  My audio pursuit has been more honest with, as Mr. Pearson called the absolute sound, being the goal...wheither I knew it or not.  Usually, like perhaps most, we include a bit of ourselves in our critique of the human condition. 

Well........what I have really is the BEST!  I have a 9volt transistor radio that I go to sleep with every night, and it is a magical radio that can pick up early 60s rock and roll from "The Big 89" WLS in Chicago, I can listen to Ron Riley, Art Roberts and others do the nightly count down of the top 3 phone requests.  It is great, Gene Pitney, Del Shannon and many others...until that darn "British Invasion" came in and America kicked out the "native talent".  But, "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want", so there. 

I am not sure what company made it for them, but for Christmas my parents bought me a protable radio from Mongomery Ward and it was sonically very good.  It seemed to have much inside of it (yes I took it apart to look inside).  I went through most of the money I could get ahold of for batteries.