Stewart Pinkerton wrote

Agreed, but the above stuff, while certainly interesting, belongs in
a music newsgroup, not an audio newsgroup.

I disagree. This group is a broad church and what was posted falls within
the remit, I believe. If the post had said 'Duke Ellington is fab and I
think he's great', or something similar, then that would have been outside.
But how many times have you been listening to something and wondered about
the positioning of people in a recording? For that reason if none other,
what was posted has a place here.

Similarly, if someone should post using an example of music that moves or
interests them as an illustration of the character of different systems or
components therein, that's fair enough too, I think. And should the
discussion then veer off into things that aren't strictly within the group's
remit, or would more properly lie within another group (such as, for
example, who drives what car), well you don't *have* to read the posts. I,
and many others, contributed to, read and enjoyed a similar discussion a
while back that started with one thing and ended up, at least in part,
discussing the music of Richard Thompson, and I defend those posts as a
valid contribution to and use of this group.

Much of the 'my dad can fight your dad' stuff is so ultimately tedious for
many readers as to be a greater waste of bandwidth for the majority, but
no-one's saying it doesn't have a place.

T.
My £0.02...