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

Some times I wish I hadn't heard a great sounding system because it makes me a bit too critical listening to other systems, in particular my own.  I will also say if you do enough research there are people making amazing components, speakers, wires, tweaks, etc at reasonable prices (even cheaper buying used) and a bit of DIY you can create a wonderful system easily besting systems at 10 times the price you would of heard at a show.  

@elizabeth Spraketh thus:

 I agree you CAN make a satisfying system, but you are totally fooling yourself that it is, IN FACT, as good as systems ten times the price.

So we can infer your arguments are:

• Price always equals performance and quality
• The market is the ultimate arbiter of quality

I find these do not fit my own experience. In fact, I think that the pride of spending money is it's own biasing influence.  Unlike cars, 


Best,

E

Waste of time to debate it with someone of dubious experience.  :)

There are three types of wine tasters:

1. Those who don't know or care about differences. 
2. Those who are delight in buying $300 bottles of wine
3. Those who know what a $300 bottle of wine tastes like and buys a $30 that is just as good and delights in saving the $270. 

Not that this has anything at all to do with audio. :) 

Best,

E