I don't mean to offend you, but you, sir, are a certified, gullible bad decision maker. The part that dissapoints me is that, whereas others of your kind at least make these decisions because they were hit by placebo effect, you're just making those decisions because you believe other people who were hit by placebo effect. Worse yet, you have developed your own faulty logic to justify every decision, even though the fellas in this thread have been trying, trying, trying to tell you these things for your own good. You choose to doubt the people here, rather than people who claim magical differences after 300 hour "burn-ins" and these strange implications that earlier clipping of the waveform is somehow beneficial. You seem to believe that we don't like x or y because we haven't tried it, when in reality we specifically choose not to try x or y because it is fundamentally a waste of time and money - two massive biases which compromise the so-called opinions of those less critical of their own actions. And mind you - some of the people in this forum - guys like AcuDefTechGuy, Gene Dellsala, Irv Robinson, TLS Guy, have probably spent five or six digits on their systems over the years (and fuzz seems to be getting there while unemployed), yet they are by far more credible as decision-makers than you in a fraction of that budget. Sit on that for just a moment.
My advice to you was whole-ly ignored, and instead i've skimmed through drivel about electronics systems being akin to flora - at that point my facepalming was not satisfactory; and I contemplated head-desking.
Good riddance to you. You will get your just deserts, and undoubtably you'll fall into the long endless black hole known as audio nervosa, rather than Aim for the top! you'll convince yourself that mediocrity is as fine as it gets. I hope you can fund the audio nervosa hobby.
