That's a long one biff, which it wouldn't surprise me if arthur missed. I'll ask him to take a look. Your point about tastes, preferences and priorities is a good one - and evident among all of aos discussion. I think I may have reacted in a slightly prickly way to paul stewart because his first post about the products I use was addressed personally to me by name, and rather than express an opinion or different taste, told me in a manner I found patronising that other product WAS better (as an absolute).

Whilst our tastes in what we hear are the only sensible basis for choosing our hifi, measurements can help objectively confirm what we hear. I hope to get the plots of the headphone measurements we took last weekend soon, and publish them next to the auditioning comments i have already posted. They were quite interesting. (Somebody tell stephen fry!)

There are also some interesting thoughts about those tonearm plots and how mechanical measurements in what are part of a transducer affect what we hear, but this thread probably isn't the place to discuss them