No bashing intended. I think this just highlights the tremendous difficulties in evaluating equipment and upgrades.

I've just bought a pair of MkII 5ks. Sometimes they sound better than on other occasions. It's material dependent; it's mood dependent; if you're familiar with human biology, it's dependent on whether or not you've just eaten something (hearing is muted after eating); and that's before we consider the brain's memory effect.

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