"Whenever my friend (who ended up working at Ayre for over ten years) would tell me about some tweak, I would say "That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of!" and refuse to even try it. (After all, I went to university and studied physics. Graduated Summa Cum Laude or something like that. I know my shit. What do you know, anyway?)

Then I would go to his house and try to figure out why his (relatively) crappy system sounded better than my (relatively) fancy one. Afterwards on some boring rainy day I would try one of his tweaks. Lo and behold! The damned things really worked.

After this happened, oh about ten or twelve times (I am a slow learner and stubborn as a mule), I finally realized that there is a lot more about audio that I don't know than what I do know."

"The moral of the story: xxxx must not have any friends. Otherwise he wouldn't be so god-damned self-righteous about what can and cannot possibly make a difference in sound."