Would your system be different if ............?

TWL, your question: "Would your system be any different if nobody but you ever saw or heard it?"

The real questions:

(1) If a Soundlab falls in the living room and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?

(2) If a Bose falls in the living room, why do you hear the sound of two hands clapping? Is it because a replacement speaker is eminent?