Thanx for your post, John. I was mainly curious to see if the dreaded negative feedback is as bad asit iscrackedup to be by SETophiles, and i have to say, it is really a tradeoff, it has some good and some bad. Same thing with tube versus solid state rectifcation. I agree completely that so much of our impressions are internally driven (or subject to sonic interference even) that it is more like appreciating different paintings, rather than admiring engineering artifacts.
-akhilesh