True or False?

Obviously a more resolving system will resolve more including anything resulting from some change in the system. No mystery there.

At that point, the "benefits" of tweaking further (other than to adapt to room acoustics) are mostly subjective and determined by personal preference. Once a system is highly resolving (and dynamic), the rest is basically room acoustics and seasoning to personal taste because you have achieved low distortion and noise, the things that muck with an accurate reproduction.

Again though, if you do not first address the fundamentals of putting together a system that is both resolving and dynamic, no noise and minimal distortion, you will be seasoning ie tweaking forever because tweaks cannot produce what is not there to start with.


Or you just may like to tweak out of curiosity. More power to you! It’s only when people talk solely about tweaking and mostly ignore or discredit the fundamentals of assembling a system that works well to-start that a red flag will go up for me.

Sometimes people may tweak to try to get all or most recordings to sound some way that they expect or want them to all sound as opposed to how they actually do sound. Big mistake!!!! You will be spinning your wheels forever trying to make everything sound like some ideal. It’s delusional to think that can really happen. Every recording is different. If you can hear the differences clearly you are in a very good place!

@artemus_5, Superchargers work, cable elevators do not. You are more than welcome to do anything you want to your system. My problem comes when you try to sell that BS to someone else. 
I tweak my system by modifying it's frequency response and adjusting speaker location with impulse testing. I do not do it with silly cables or overpriced tinker toy garbage. I suggest if you really want to tweak your system get one of these https://www.parts-express.com/Dayton-Audio-OmniMic-V2-Acoustic-Measurement-System-390-792

Winner!!!
Most ignorant comment of the year (so far).

djones51 said:
"FALSE, the cost doesn't matter. Tweaks are useless in an inexpensive, moderate or expensive system."

Question for some of the responses. Are your listening skills better in hearing the tweaks? Or is the delivery making the sound better and your listening skills are the same? Reason I ask is I have noticed this mostly in my car. I think the combination of better bandwidth they are broadcasting with and the stations using higher quality dac’s have me hearing things I can’t recall hearing just 5 years ago. I am getting older and don't think the normal progression in hearing is it gets better with age. I am in the camp of little tweaks can make a difference but don't think it can be attributed to my ears getting better.

The tweak eliminator in my experience is good room treatment.

People get off the merry-go-round of buying hardware and cables and fuses pretty quickly after they've done that.