Yet everytime I asked someone what component (or system) they really liked I got a new answer. Components that just didn't do it for me for one reason or another were somebody elses favorite. Then somebody else would have a completely opposite reaction to the same system.

This happened more often than I would have ever expected. Any ideas as to why we all have such different preferences when it comes to audio reproduction? Is this something we have "learned" through extended listening to reproduced music or is there just a lot of variation in everyones hearing?

Preferences are just opionions in my book, some people like more of a layed back kind of sound, some like it sharp and edgey. And as the old saying goes opinions are like assholes everybody has one.

Bill W.

Ron and Sharon and Snowball

Cool to go to the shows and see all the different things and notice how the opinions and perceptions come about isn’t it? It's really quite remarkable. As Mr. Geddes has also mentioned, the speaker is the one part of a system that makes more change than all the other components combined, in my perception. I've been at a show where one group is throwing rose petals at your feet while the group before them is still muttering under their breath how awful things were!

It's pretty cool. All,in the eyes (or ears) of the beholder

Bill