What exactly is critical listening? I just wanna hear great music as exact as I can afford, and after that I just buy CD's.

Before I stopped posting on the PE forum I asked: "If you could design and build a system that got 95% perfect, but it would cost an additional $2000 and 100 hours of work to make 96%, would you stop and just listen to the music, or would you put all your time into making it 96%? And struggle to keep shaving off smaller and smaller percentages?"

Almost 80% of the people there said they'd go for 96%. And when I asked what they listened to most people described rock groups.

That's when I knew I was in the wrong place. These people weren't interested in listening to music, they we're just compulsive about building bigger and bigger woofers and better and better and better speaker systems, no matter how much more time and energy it cost them from actual listening.

Which are you?

Marlboro