Good listening skills for musical playback enjoyment include the ability to mask out unwanted sounds and anomalies and reconstruct in our heads things that aren't really heard. Bad listening skills would be to be able to hear things as they really are. If you could do that, you would never hear a phantom center image. You would always correctly interpret all the sounds to be coming directly from each speaker. That would suck. Nothing wrong with learning to better imagine sound that isn't there, except perhaps that it can make us vulnerable to magical claims that are sometimes rather expensive if we don't remain aware of what's going on.
True or False?
Many high-end manufactures deny the benefits of tweaking their components with upgraded power cables, fuses, etc. We all can agree that even the best speakers respond to room placement but is it true or not true in (your experiences) that the better your audio components are, the less they respond to various tweaks?