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Speculating? Hardly. Here's my 3rd attempt to get your response to your listening experiences....

John, would you mind sharing with us one of your potential "birthing of a new world" experiences that's a bit more on a lower shelf so all us can better understand where you're coming from?

1. How about sharing with us your experience with the Vandersteen Model 7A speakes at CES 2014 I think it was, where you called that presentation at that exhibit among other things, musically perfect...., across the board? No leading questions, just sharing with us that obviously unforgettable experience and why you considered it, musically perfect..., across the board.

2. Also, if indeed the 7A's were musically perfect, how does MQA (a birth of a new world) fit into an already perfect equation? Is there such a thing as better than perfect?

3. Which in your opinion is superior, a musically perfect presentation or a presentation equating to the birth of a new world? What does musically perfect mean to you? What does a birth of a new world mean to you?

4. The speakers are but one part of the playback vineyard and the MQA format being of another part of that vineyard with I assume little to no potential for overlapping the roles/responsibilities of these two disparate parts of the vineyard. That said, can you explain how one technology type in one part of the vineyard (a speaker or a high-rez recording) can fully correct and/or compensate for the potentially very serious shortcomings in all other parts of that vineyard? Or even in one other part of the vineyard?

5. We know nobody ever "hears" a component or speaker as thought it were isolated. We really only hear nothing less than the sum of all parts of the vineyard. How is it you were able to so confidently attribute that "musically perfect...., across the board" level of musicality to just the 7A speakers and nothing else?

6. In the Sept '09 issue of Stereophile, you discussed comparing the sound of a live piano to that of a recorded piano and you stated something to the effect that it was obvious much of the live music wasn't making it to the recording. Paraphrased. Have either the Vandersteen 7A's or MQA caused you to rescind that 2009 comment?

7. Speaking of pianos. It is understood by some (and I agree) that the piano seems to be the most difficult instrument to accurately reproduce in a playback system. Are you implying now that with either the 7A's or MQA we now have the technology / products available to us to hear a piano via a playback system that includes the 7A's or MQA that is identical or near identical to a live piano?

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