Jenn wrote:
I claim that a person trained as I've been trained and who has the live
music experience that I have, will be a better judge of the sound of an
audio system AS IT COMPARES TO LIVE MUSIC than does the average person.

I think I know the reason why Arny got so upset about your preference of
LP's producing the timbre of instruments "right" for you Jenn; Arny
found out from you, without a shadow of a doubt, what he himself had
been suspecting all along; All these years he has been listening to
information, not MUSIC. And given his limited financial means, he will
go on doing so for the rest of his life.. He will pop a CD into his mass
market pioneer cd player and go on constantly struggling to turn the
information coming to him from the QSC NHT setup into music in his head.
It must take a lot of strecthing of the imagination to do so..... I
think one of the reasons why Arny is such a rude and obtuse person
constantly is this constant struggle and effort he has to put forth to
imagine the information coming to him from his stereo system as music.

OTOH, Jenn, you might want to try to listening to strings, violins, from
sonus faber speakers (concerto grand piano, cremona auditor, cremona
floorstander) fed by plinius or some odyssey audio amps (stratos+ or the
stratos mono extremes to be precise) and the SOURCE being Linn genki or
better Ikemi OR plinius cd101. Not all cd players, amps, speakers, sound
the same you know.