My thoughts exactly. I didn't miss an Armin set at Gods from Jan03-April08, and he was there every month throughout 2004. One of the best nights I've ever had was his 9 hour set in March 2004 which was so fecking good, I still get hairs standing on end thinking about the tunes he played that night. His next one for Gods birthday in Sept 2005 couldn't even touch it.
I'm just not really into the direction Armin has gone down, more proggy than anything else, but not very good prog either; exactly what Tiesto did about 5 years ago. At least PvD has always retained his own sound.
At that time though 2003-04, Armin was the best DJ in the world IMO.