I remember that when we had a Phase Linear 400 / Acoustic Research AR3a speakers / and so on, and then later a gas AMP with etc.......... I would listen to these systems, but as soon as I left the house my wife WOULD TURN EVERYTHING OFF! Hummmmm......

Then after I had set up the Magneplanar/Futterman system....

One morning I went to work, and mid-morning I called my wife (not something I did very often) and ...... WHAT? She had the system playing!

THAT was when I KNEW! I didn't need no stinking reviewers' opinions.

I still use the GAS amp, one of the AR3a's got fried, I sold off some other stuff, and.... here we are. If my wife will listen to our various systems, then I know that everything is cool.

And I never tell her the details of the systems, and she doen NOT read audiophile reviews. She is my unbiased canary.