True or False?

is it true or not true in (your experiences) that the better your audio components are, the less they respond to various tweaks?

Not true. Just as a race car responds more to tweaks, so does a high resolving system. Part of the problem in tweaking a lesser system is that it doesn’t respond. Thus my skepticism in Power cords 15-20 yrs ago or so. Tried them. Nothing there. 10 yrs ago, aha. They did work along with many other tweaks I dismissed i.e. Oyaide R1 outlet. Then too, I had developed more listening skills which is essential.

@mapman

The better they are the less tweaks needed to make them sound good. See how that works?

There is a certain amount of truth there. Yes, the better equipment does sound better. That's why we use the word "better" to describe them. But the question posed was about the better equip responding better, not "needed" as much as we think of our systems, they are not a need. I have found joy in listening to music on the most basic of machines. Do I "need" the better equipment? No. But I prefer it. If you prefer not to tweak, that’s fine with me. It’s your system to do as you please with.

@ mijostyn

Tweaks are for idol worshipers.

Yep. Tell that to the race car drivers who modify a sports car with a catch can,  Cold air intake, or shocks and suspension or Tires.  And I haven't even mentioned supercharger, or Turbo or smaller pully.  Did you spend the night at Holiday Inn? I hear a lotta experts come from there. Maybe you should quit representing your views as the final authority especially on things that I KNOW you are dead wrong.  I let it go the 1st time I saw it. But calling those who believe in tweaks "idol worshippers" is out of line. If you don't believe in tweaks, then fine. Don't do any. No problem. But quit acting like a know it all will ya. 

Ahhh, the Scientismists are at it again. Science has all the answers according to this "religion" Yet when they are backed in a corner they will say "science doesn’t have all the answers. Yet when someone tells of an experience they disagree with, they ridicule it, calling on science which they already have said doesn’t have all the answers So which is it? Either you rely on science exclusively, or not. This is the conundrum each one of the scientismists put forth because they always seem to mock experience they disagree with . No ones experience is good enough unless it agrees with the Scientismists POV.

But the very word, to "Know" is based on experience. which I and many others have. AAMOF, Science itself is based on experience. But the Scientismists tell us that the very thing that makes science (experience) is totally dismissed when one of us claims our experience all because we don’t have a machine to measure something to tell us what we like or don’t like. Funny thing is that they can tell us about what they have read but I see little or no statements of their experience. Is it because they have no direct experience?

There is much more to add but with dogmatic religious people whether it be Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Scientism, it becomes a futile effort because of Dunning Kruger syndrome which dominates most dogma.