The Absurdity of it All

@perkri - first - thanks for engaging and teaching me something. I really do appreciate it! I can't speak to rolling tubes or changing capacitors, I have absolutely no experience with either. But I have experience  swapping out components which has made a difference. But it's immediate and I do an A/B right there and then and can hear the differences. (And with components at least, it's obvious - cables - not so much.) But, that's a 1+0 sum to get somewhere better. 

I don't understand why you have to have time between them - unless you mean just adjusting to something new. Yes, ribbons are different than boxes, etc. So I can see that with speakers and their designs, but electronics? Cables? Are you just adjusting to the sound, or is it a +1 difference? 

In the grand scheme of audio systems...less is more. The more tweaks you put in the system, the more hurdles that need to be jumped. My favorite music system for years is CD/DVD/computer player through passive volume control straight to power amp through 12 gauge copper to speakers. 

The quality of the recording dictates the quality of the playback. Buy better software.

I was born the 2nd year of president Harry S. Truman`s administration 1946 and I can also hear a pin drop. In fact as the pin falls I can hear by way of my Pass XP30 preamp Pass XP350 power amp and my Magnepan 3.6`s (aka) maggies the velocity of the drop you don`t know you best as somebody Oorah.

Elliot Scheiner, Bob Ludwig, Bob Clearmountain...know who those guys are? I bet they can't hear a pin drop either...I'd prefer the opinions of Richard Vandersteen over most any young audio geek, and likely so would you. I rarely say this but, seriously, this is a really dumb topic.

And on the same off-message point, a withering put-down to humble the 1960s Bob Dylan:

Lady Astor:  'Winston, you are drunk.”
Churchill:  “And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning, and you will still be ugly.”