Firmware 8.1 released!

[AlexS]

OT warning..

So AlexS, you think the 'rationals' need to be protected from the 'others' by creating separate threads so they can browse without disturbance? Who would decide what is rational and what is not?

I support Guillaume's Moderator notice fully

Not to belabor this topic (and, for that matter, my post was mostly intended to relax the atmosphere), I did not so much propose to protect the 'rationals' from the 'irrationals' (and vice versa), even less to define what constitues rational, but to create more focused threads, so that the easily irritable can more successfully stay away from what irritates them, so to speak
 
@Manoet, math is definitely on your side: it's indeed 4 camps, according to my own reckoning.

@Hifi_swlon, yes, it's probably more than 4, but not because I don't belong to any of the aforementioned camps. In fact, the very opposite is true: I feel obligated to belong to the Scientific/Rational camp, but I don't understand the technical side of audio equipment well enough. I'm tempted, but afraid to belong to the "Artistic/Irrational" camp with their A/B comparisons, since that would land me personally in a madhouse (I once A/B compared SAM for my speakers, until I lost the ability to perceive music, without arriving at any meaningful conclusion, other than that I should stop comparing, and try to pretend SAM did not exist). I wish I could belong to the "Take it easy camp", cause they're right by definition, but I can't: taking things easy is not my fate. (Just to note, the latter camp is heavily under-represented on this site, since the more money one invests into one's audio equipment, the more one starts to care). That leaves me the "Psychological" camp. And I think it suites me very well:
Listening pleasure/displeasure is a function of:
quality of the recording +
one's equipment +
one's beliefs about one's equipment (as well as other convictions and beliefs pertaining to music, such as the 192/24 format +
one's current mood and state of well-being + 
the limitations of one's ear +
one's beliefs about the limitations of one's ear.

Enough and sorry for the digression in this already busy thread.