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Systems:some tweek responsive,some not?

Some particular systems (all being unique) are more responsive to minor tweeks, and some are not moved at all.
I wonder if some of the debate over tweeks (like power cords) is due to trial and error testing: One Audiophile tries a little tweek, being skeptical, but descovers that the thing works, and is encouraged to explore further!... Another Audiophile tries the SAME tweek and finds nothing, and feels he's been made a fool of for wasting the money. They meet on a board such as this and call each other bad things.. When in reality they each tried it, and <> one noticed something and the other didn't, but they assumed the "tweek" was the key element, and missed that each ones system may have been so different that the tweek behaved as each sensed it.
Aside from the theoretical group who spout dogma (flames!!)and don't care about trying stuff out.
I wonder how many realize that the system that responds to a power cord is sort of on a knife edge, so to speak, and the system that is not just isn't in that particular sort of balance? (not to say a non-responsive system is "less" than one that bounces all around if you look at it funny.)
I would like to see some comments about the SYSTEM variables that seem to make it possible to begin to get the experiences found in tweeking, vs the things that suddenly nothing seems to change anything since you "X"....
FOR EXAMPLE: My system has gone from general non responsiveness to noticable since I got the Adcom 750 preamp..... and... blah blah blah. (I'm burn out thinking these big thoughts so I'll turn this over to anyone else to continue:
elizabeth

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john_l
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As Garfish may or may not have alluded to earlier, system tweaks are also taste oriented to an extent. For example I sometimes have other audio guys come over and we try some different setups. Sometimes people will bring over some of their own equipment. (We should start a magazine!).

Anyway, one of the interesting things I notice is how different people will set up speakers in my room in different places. I purposely leave the speakers in a bad place, then let them 'fix' it to see what they come up with. I prefer my speakers to be far away from me, because I choose to give up soundstage precision for the sake of a more 'mid-hall' soundfield which reminds me more of a live performance. One of my friends insists that you should have the speakers 6 feet from you with sharp toe-in. This makes the soundfield imaging more precise, but I don't like the sense of having sound laser beamed at me. Another prefers the speakers more mid-room with minimal toe in for the widest soundstage. Yet another consistently places things exactly where I like them. (He's right!) All obtain fairly different sounding systems that are 'Just right'.

That's not even going into equipment changes !
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