Just reading this today and just had to answer, been into music and hif for years but only recently into this forum thing as only recently on fat pipe.
I have currently MF X-Ray, Xa-1, Xa-50's connected with 2x Chord Chameleon 2 I/C's and QED profile 4X4 S/c connected to PMC FB1's, dull is not the first word anyone who has heard this setup, thinks of, some poor recordings will even take the paint off walls at full tilt.
I have been reading this forum for the past couple of weeks and mostly it is excellent, more esoteric than some other sites that think marantz is king, now to my ears marantz sounds dull and muddy with bloomy bottom end, but that is only an opinion. Some of your egular posters seem to be very snobbish and smug in their opinions, as if like some religious zealot, they have seen the light, and their opinion is RIGHT, surely one mans light is a blind mans electromagnetic energy.
I often say to people who are happy with their midi system or "entry level seperates" sytem, my system is not better than yours just different, but to me the difference is worth paying the extra for, not so for them, who is happier the person with the £10,000 hifi and a hundred recordings or the chap with £100 hifi and 10,000 recordings, are we not all in this first and foremost because we like music?
Too much conflict na argument in this world aready without all us who fit into the bigger category of "Music Lovers" arguing about subjective things, lets face it football fans do it, they all like football (personally i just don't get it) and then further segregate into little groups to bad mouth each other for not being in their gang. So lets not go down to their level and keep the discussion flowing, with positive remarks and suggestions keep your opinions just that, opinions, and don't resort to ridicule just because you didn't like it. Remenber, some of us have poured alot of our hard earned cash on our kit and don't need to hear it lambasted by others because it is not their colour.
Paul