Topspeed and MarkW are right on the money.

I gots two problems with the thread.
1. nOOb with his 901s is showing an impressive amount of disdain for a good portion of the AR community: i.e. audiophiles (self proclaimed or otherwise) in search of the next tweak or upgrade. If we're all a bunch of elitist wanks, why did you bother joining the community? Bagging on audiophiles for being elitist snobs is like going to a strip bar and being bummed out that the dancers are kinda skanky. It goes with the territory.

2. The lines of "go listen yourself and decide for for your self" and "if it sounds good to you than, okay" serve a purpose, but not here. These are 301s for christsake. They are crap and alway have been crap. If some poor nOOb says, "my neighbor says the 301 is best in class" we owe it to them to say with all candor, "no, don't even waste your time."

Subjective opinion has its place if someone asks: paradigm vs. B&W, or tyler vs. dynaudio, or Martin Logan vs. Magnapan. In those cases, go listen. If you like it, then okay. But, somethings are objectively without question bad. Budweiser is bad beer. Thunderbird is bad wine. Hungry howies is bad pizza. SlumpBusting is bad sex (hehe ). And 301s are bad speakers. It doesn't matter that I had some epic rockouts in college to a pair of 301s, they are still simply a bad speaker.