Murray - in your opinion for your music taste. The systems you admire would fail utterly at playing half of my record collection. Which is unacceptable to me. I want the music reproduced as it is. Not a system that can just play a very small range of music and adds a lot of its own character that you seem addicted to. That may be what you like but it isnt "high fidelity". Before you start - I dont just listen to thrash.

Sm - having heard the kondo system that is at the very pinnacle of your worship I can safely say that it isnt. For reasons given in the paragraph above.

Bub - I suggest you study the phenomena of resonance more closely - along with just about every other topic you have ever ventured an opinion on . Try listening to some more kit - it will give you an even bigger shock than the one you got from comparing the sme (an average deck) to the linn (a **** poor one). Perhaps you should have learnt something from the experience rather than just shifting religion?