Richard,

well done on discovering that hifi forums are for arguing - not for gaining insight or knowledge.

If you do a search, you will find that this converation has been had two hundred times before on this board alone - and inumerable times elsewhere.

You could always read those, unless of course your intention was to have an arguement on your own terms, without the need to indulge in willy waving.

FWIW, traffic shows that childish arguments are what draw in posters and lurkers - kind of like rubber necking an accident.

The problem with hifi is that there is nothing out there that hasn't been discussed before. So it's all repetition, and some will take great delight in pointing that out.

Anyway, what was your argument? If it's not thoroughtly based in science, you don't stand a chance matey - the trolls will have you before you've even got going.