"Lionel" wrote in message

Arny Krueger wrote:

Stereophile's basic editorial policy is clearly that everything
sounds different, with heavy emphasis on the word everything. In
fact, some things sound different, and some things don't.

As soon as a manufacturer is an
"interesting-potential-advertisement-customer" his products start to
sound different... ;-)

Stereophile seems to be a little more farsighted than that.

IMO as soon as you have eliminated the poor constructed electronics
you can focus at 99.999% on speakers, their placement and the
listening room acoustic.

Agreed.

The expensive accessories are only 0.001 % of the final result... But
good customers for magazines advertisers.

Agreed.