Variety is part of what makes this hobby so interesting.
We all hear differently.
Multiple factors, including the weather, affect sound wave propagation on any given day.
Gear interacts in complementary and in contradictory ways, to create positive synergy or negative detraction. That's a stupid-fancy way of saying that any time you put different components together, you'll get different results, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
No one has heard all of the gear out there, nor all the recordings (nor even a very big fraction of them!), so we are all speaking from limited and different experiences. Like the blind men describing the elephant, there are bound to be different and contradictory opinions.
Sorting through all of this as we progress along the path of the seeker, finding out what is and is not true for us, what we like and what we don't like, is part of what this hobby is about. Each of us walks a different experience path, united only by the central theme of "audio" or "music".
If everything was clear, measurable and precise, then everyone would buy the same equipment, or they would look at a chart that said something like "male, age 45, listens mostly to jazz in a 200 squ. ft. room, wants to spend under a thousand dollars on speakers", and read off what speakers should be bought. Everyone in similar situations would have exactly the same gear. There would be no need for competing brands, for different and competing designs and innovations, etc... Thank God that things are NOT that way! It would be boring, and ultimately not nearly as satisfying.
It is much better, I think, that we can try out Mosfet vs Vfet, Push-pull vs Single-ended triode, electrostatic vs sealed acoustic, moving coil vs moving magnet, etc... etc... and all of their combinations and permutations. It is impossible to hear them all, but far from impossible to create great sound within a limited time and budget. When it all comes together, the satisfaction is just that much more.
Just one opnion. You may feel free to disagree, and to leave the hobby if you wish to.
