@jasonbourne52 Indeed you can't always hear slightly better equipment. But as we go about putting together our system, consistently making the best choice, often guided by physics, sometimes by experience, the 30 to 50 choices we make will add up to superior sound in the end.
I snicker at those who describe the performance of a component with terms that sound like a review from wine spectator, but you are at the other end of the spectrum. reading your comments one could assume that they can buy a 1000 ft reel of 22 ga wire and just use it for everything. That is obviously not true.
The truth is always somewhere in the middle. but in our society today people like to polarize to one end of the other.
I'm in the middle.
Jerry