From the Batmobile to highend electronics


A long time ago , I saw a Ford Mustang with so much added equipment ( foillers , deflectors , etc )
that It was looking like the Batmobile ( vintage series )
I remember saying that with all the money , he spent on this Mustang , he could have bought a Corvette.

I was reading today about Synergistic Reseach Galileo Gound Block : 7 K $ ... The torture never ends.
https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/synergistic-research-galileo-sx-ground-block/

Then I tough :I have bought a good system.Then I added a power conditioner. I added Nordost power bar . I added Nordost QRT 1 and QRT 2 , many of them. I added Schumann Wave Generators , etc.
I was thinking to add Nordost QKore 3.

If I would have take all that money, I could have bought the flagship integrated amplifier rather than the little brother.

My question is ; all those added gears , do they bring you system near a top level one with all the money spent ?
Or is it wasted effort. Diminutive returns .
My system looks more and more like the equipment in the Batcave.






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@millercarbon Politeness is free and appreciated try harder next time please.
If you know your house wiring is questionable, and you can ascertain background noise in your system when no signal is being put through it, a good power isolator is a perfectly logical investment.  I have a medical-grade power isolator for my gear.  The box is a foot square and weighs 35 pounds, because there is real pig iron in that sucker.  It didn't cost 5 figures like what it appears you spent on all that Nordost kit, but hey, if that works for you, then cool.  I spent $600 on that thing, and it was a worthy purchase. 

In my experience, there are "auxiliary" (I use that word for lack of a better one) items that can improve your experience.  But I'm definitely in the "diminishing returns" camp.  I participated, years ago, in a double-blind A/B test between basic 16-gauge lamp cord and $1500/m audiophile-grade speaker wire to the same set of speakers.  I was able to correctly identify which one was in use 65% (13/20) of the time, so there was a difference.  But the difference wasn't all that dramatic, even before ear fatigue from listening to the same music selection over and over again set in.  No one who took the test that day hit 100%, except one guy who nailed his first attempt and stopped the test after that. 

I'm sure some feathers will be ruffled by this opinion, but hey, we all take our own paths through the audiophile maze, I'm not judgy about people who spend top dollar for every aspect of their system.  If it makes you happy, do it.  

The upside is, all those auxiliary items won't need to be replaced should you decide to swap out a component in the future.  So you can kind of mark them down as "done".  Right? 
@millercarbon
Ecoutes moi bien mon ostie de niaiseux , tu ne viens plus sur mes 
discussions . Sinon l’histoire que je vais compter sur toi , mon petit christ de farfadet farfelu , tu vas t’en souvenir longtemps


Me modre. 
As if an online translator could disguise bad taste and hopeless other character defects.