Yes!!! that's the thing. And also, God will discount from our lives, the time we had spent listening to music! And the recordings make a difference if you are an audiophile, and do not if you are a music lover. But the ML magic exists in both worlds!! The ones that we like a good, well done recording and the other, like a customer that I have, who owns original mono recordings at 78 RPM listening to Carusso and Carlos Gardel through his beloved ML Prodigies. For our ears, transparency, open window, size and air between instruments, vocal(s), you name it, are reproduced as no other speakers on the planet. I am not saying that out there are better speakers than ML, but you have to pay many, many, many more, and perhaps even that, you will stick with ML sound. My dear friends, we are dealing with one of the best sound available through the world on these days!!! You can get horns, (that's what you get, horn sound) other planar aproach, but they are not that fast. Our diaphragm in ML weights less than the air that it moves, think in physics! no inertia. The closest sound wave to the original source. Put your ears very close to any tweeter, no matter what brand is, and listen the high distortion that you get there... and put your ears to the panel, you do not worry, you will not get shock, and listen the free distortion of the signal...pure music!... yes, they are not perfect, but the small flaws are forgiven when we have that kind of special, fabulous, dramatic, easy to listen sound in our own place.