Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid?

It’s a fair question. But to me it says more about you than you might think. Some want the best and strive, continually and without rest, to find the best. For those who spend thousands upon thousands of dollars I find it a waste. Perhaps one could stop and really start enjoying the music? When I start to think about chasing all that state of the art equipment, I think about the cash I would lose in the process and all the good things I could do with it???? Not to mention what some here have, the sound you will get in the end will be YOUR sound. If you have people over to listen to the system, they might not agree that it produces the best sound.

I am using the Resonessence Mirus Pro Dac in the video as my source playing a dsd album of an sd card. The brother of the owner of Resonessence created the ess sabre chip. This allows them to implement the use of this chip better than the others.  I chose the Gato speakers because of the scan speak drivers as well as the ring radiator tweeter. The company Gato did a great job of getting a lot of air and space in the tweeter. The driver set up allows for a very big and open midrange. A company like Gato was really trying to prove itself with the technology used in the speaker. I chose the speaker because of that and I didn’t want to get what others already had. I love my music to be dynamic and resolving based on the type of jazz I listen to. I like to her instrument players really go for it in THIER playing. The rel sub adds great bass foundation. 

If you are asking for a "reference point" for music listening, I would suggest a few small classical concerts--quartets?--at the local college and so forth.  If you like jazz or modern rock, etc., go to a few smaller venues and listen. No way they will be "recording" perfect, but you get the sense of the live music performance experience however good or bad that it is. Then, go to your dealer and listen to what he or she thinks are the "best" (most accurate?) systems and remember, YOUR ROOM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT of the listening experience.  If you learn a few things about how a system CAN sound at the dealer's and then try to compare that to what you heard live--hard to do since musical memory is fleeting--you can then swap out various components in your home system to get the sound "YOU LIKE." 

Start with speakers and then go to the various other items.  I would not worry so much about speaker feet or turntable magic cones or solid platinum wires or all the other stuff that makes up a system yet.  Get a sound you can be happy with IN YOUR ROOM and then change it bit by bit as you listen to more live music and more recorded music and get what YOU like. 

When I play my instrument through my Sunn amp VS my Fender amp, I am trying for a specific "sound" associated with that specific amp that may or may not be what YOU like, right??  But, it is the sound I WANT for that part of a song.  Is it "accurate" or "right?"  It is for that song in that studio, but you may hate it when played back on your system.  Same with the quartets you hear live.  They are trying to reproduce the writer's sound he heard in his head as best they can.  Would the composer approve?  Who knows, but if YOU like it, that's is good enough for me.