How competitive are you with your system?

@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

@lanx0003  

I’m sure your system sounds magnificent on Mahler’s 2nd Symphony.  
But  the true test of an audio system is how it decodes the bits on all digital recordings.  If all the bits of the decoding are not properly in place there will be distortions.  Not that all recordings are created equally well. Certainly some sound much  better than others.  For many reasons. But distortions are usually caused by deficiencies in the system.