How competitive are you with your system?

@lanx0001 

Conversely, perhaps the inability of  your system to properly decode those tracks reveals a deficiency in your system.  Mercury Living Presence recordings are considered revelatory by most audiophiles.

@stuartk 

My thread doesn’t “disqualify” anyone from posting.  I was just making an observation that it surprises me how my post engendered so many to answer.

@lanx0003 

“My system challenges me to a fight every time i turn it on.”

That was a joke in response to another’s post. Get it?

@rvpiano  My system beautifully decodes the truly magnificent recording of Mahler’s Second Symphony by G. Kaplan I have previously referred, reproducing a live performance with an immersive sound field in my listening space. At the same time, it reveals the flaws in your MLP.

I strongly suggest placing your speakers farther apart to possibly expose the hollowness in the center stage and to expand the soundstage.

I after numerous Years of expressing a Keen Interest in Audio related matters and not really feeling exposed to an inherent competitiveness from those met, unless in the Corridors of a Industry Trade Show running the gauntlet of Hawkers loitering for their next to be ensnared.

Plenty of Competitive attitudes revealing their presence within those environments.

I have been looking at a Thread that has a undertone that strongly suggests Competitiveness is at large, make ones own mind up, The Jury is Out.

 https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/whatsbestforum-what-s-going-on?page=3