Ross,
Kudos if you can enjoy music suboptimally reproduced! It truely is
marvelous that you can receive the emotional content of the music even whe
portrayed in a way that hifi aficionados do not find satisfying.

By the same token, however, avoid tuning into people who tell you what
you want to hear. Many people feel a need to receive external assurance that
their choice is the right one. When dressed up as pseudo science, it can be
quite appealing.

Ross, the "everything sounds the same" mantra a trap. It is not a trap
for you to be satisfied with what you have, but you do not need the crutch
of intellectual dishonesty to be satisified. It is a completely unnecessary
pollution of the purity of your mind. Arny Krueger's website is irrelevant
to hifi reproduction. As Ludovic Mirabel has shown, Arny's methods actually
disguise differences that are widely accepted, and verified over many years
of collective audiophile experience.

Ross, everyone, except the plutocrats, is really in the same boat as you
are. A friend of mine, by dint of successful equipment trading, has recently
ascended to "high end" levels of audio equipment which is not feasible for
me to match. But I don't grasp for reasoning to tell me that my boat is
better, or just as good. I simply enjoy what I have, and enjoy what he has.

Be happy, but do not allow pseudo science to close your mind.