The Kenwood has a future for certain. The NAD earned the moniker “Not Always Dependable” due to their precarious circuit design and the tendency to carpet bomb when a component decides to end its own life.

This is like reading Egyptian hieroglyphics.

This was very well put. When most of us were kids, the music was kind of raw. Now, the music kids and millennials are listening to even worse - it makes those older recordings sound pretty decent by comparison.

Just look at Skrillex and that dubstep craze, circa 2012. Music quality took a huge hit in the race for who would have the loudest, most ear-shredding tracks. It sounds like trash no matter what it’s played on, so shy would people care about SQ beyond what they get from a Beats Pill?

Torrents

I haven’t heard the Q Acoustics, but I have heard the 607 and 707, both S3 versions, and they were excellent. They sound nothing like the 600 series from a decade ago, much less the early 2000s. The 707 has an upmodel tweeter with a carbon dome and while the 607 S3’s tweeter sounded essentially perfect, the carbon one was sharper.

After Toole headed Harman group and ruined JBL with watered down to bluetooth crap and $12,000 speakers that were built using “new age” design methodology (aimed directly at the lowest quality that can pass a controlled listening test while charging maximum buck), I never looked back.