On the contrary, Chess. If you tell me you have personal experience with something, I'd value your opinion very much. It's the philosophical statements of matters of faith and belief that I find a bit dubious.
If you say I have CD Player X, hooked it up to system N, and it sounded better than CD Player Y, I'd believe you ... CDP (X) in that system sounded better to you than CDP (Y) in that same system. If you said, I listened to it, and found CD(Y) to have loose blowsy bass, reedy mids and upleasant highs, I'd know what you're talking about and wouldn't doubt you.
If my experience with CD(Y) differed, I wouldn't call you a liar, or deluded by poor testing methodology, I'd say, my experience differed, maybe you had a bad example of CD(Y), ... like that.
If you tell me, CD(X) can't be better than CD(Y) because all the wise men who have tested them and reported in magazines CD(Y) is better, then I'd say, "what do you know."
