Benefits of brand synergy


How important is brand synergy in matching components? This not only includes amps and preamps but also digital sources from a particular brand, say Arcam or Kell. Is this "synergy" important just for impedance purposes or is there an additional sonic benefit of having everything matching? Thanks.
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"In practice individual brands will do some things better than others. For example their amps might be good, but their CD players not so much."

That's what I've noticed too, particularly from many budget manufacturer's. It led me to wonder if the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Thank you for your responses.