I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that actually liking the sound of a system has very little to do with the quality of it. This is obvious and I think we'd kind of all agree with this, but....

I think things like staging, resolution, timing, accuracy, dynamics, sizing, can all be judged, and fairly, even if you don't like the sound of a system. And in saying that, I've found there is more than just a 'little' correlation between price and getting these things right.

I've heard sub $50,000 system I 'like' better than several $500,000 systems. But, the ability of the higher end system to get all the above components right, obviously makes it a superior system weather I liked it or not.

But this is a slight digression of my original question.

I'd like to get back to the original point. I am much more inclined to want to read a review where all the components seem to fit within a similar price range. Now if you have absolute gems in that price range, things that do/can perform better than much higher priced stuff, than good for you are the reviewer, and good for the reader, because they can afford it.