@rvpiano - ultimate detail is, in fact, precisely what every audiophile should be working towards. It is detail bloat that should be avoided at all cost, which certain tweeter/woofer typologies and/or material choices can exacerbate. Ultimate detail isn’t about hearing the tiniest chime at a scale approaching that of a lead vocalist, it is about hearing the completeness of a performance in all its amazing detail the way one would hear it all at a live performance. And, while more expensive components can get one closer to that, the most vital part of accurate detail retrieval (not detail addition), will not come by way of the superlative single component, but by the aggregate of every single part of the signal chain. It does mean attention and effort put to each and every thing, in culling the smallest percent of improvement, because components alone only provide the smallest of a fraction of that retrieval; it’s all those little fractions put together that can yield up to a full 16 percent of sound realism improvement, the effect of which can be mind-blowing.
However, room acoustics aside, if there is just one component/thing that will bring the greatest delta of detail completeness, it will be found in a well thought through grounding solution for the system and speakers. This will not be cheap, but still be magnitudes less expensive than anything else in one’s system build, for the effect of sound degradation reduction it achieves. A resolving grounding solution need not be from nordost, ansus, shunyata, CAD, stillpoints or entreq. I’ve found the best effect to actually cost considerably less, but among other things, it will require a solid copper grounding rod embedded in marconite in actual garden soil. Together with a grounding router and braided silver grounding cables, you’ll have a boost to realism you would have never believed possible.
In friendship - kevin