Sabai,
The only issue I have with your approach is you make it sound like foreever tweaking and adding stuff is a good strategy to follow. I am not so certain. It may work for you, but how is another to replicate your results with that approach? I have to wonder where the difference between better and different lies. I have heard a lot of gear including many very high end or reference type systems. There is only so much that goes into a recording. It is not an infinite pool of undiscovered musical detail as many audiophiles might think. At some point, improvement in one area often negatively impacts others. Wherever it may be, there is a finite limit to how "good" something can sound. A lot has to do with meeting individual expectations that differ much from person to person.
I do not doubt you system sounds great and holographic and whatever else. But I have trouble endorsing a lose strategy that is based on continuous tweaking. Where does it end? does it matter? That depends as well on ones goals. Having no specific goal and always tweaking and changing is as viable as any. Again to me its mostly about enjoyment. I take it seriously as well but once I get to the point where I can clearly hear differences in rrecordings with no real reservations over the long term based on a large sample recordings, I am good to go. My opinion is that powr and IC tweaks are probably required to get to where I like to be. Honestly, I could care less after that especially about things that make no sense to me. Not to say all esoteric tweaks are without basis, some are. All one can do is attempt to make informed decisions based on something that might even possibly resemble a fact. Its when one tweaks and spends just because they "think" they might be missing something and do not know what to do otherwise. At some point it becomes an obsession almost like a drug habit. That is the point at which I would become concerned if it were me.
That's how I feel about it, right or wrong. There are many tweaks out there that may do little or nothing and have no negative effect on teh sound though teh effect on one's bank account might be significant. Or, not. It all depends. Some common sense is usually a good ingredient whatever way one goes.
