Dave; the argument you just made was made a long time ago to answer this guy when he first started spouting this nonsense. But he is a consumate salesman speaking to an audience that is pre-disposed to accepting his schpiel. No rational argument will detract them from the mission of proving that people cannot tell differences in audio equipment. It took the Japanese experimentors in the early 90's to yank us out of the solid state hierarchy that was strangling audio for 15 yrs. How many people gave up on audio because of the terrible sound they would hear entering an audio store full of perfect sound forever CD and solid state gear? Now there is a new generation looking for a spokesman to return us back to the dark ages of sound reproduction. Half of all recorded music from the last 25 yrs. is unlistenable because of this type of flat earth thinking. Thanks for lighting a candle.