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

 I find when people go gaga over expensive or new stuff, just because it is, that it's an indication of lack of experience or lack of knowledge. Not saying some of it isn't good but a lot of it isn't and almost all of it isn't worth the price. Once you pass a certain price level it's about status and bling, not sound quality. 
Also there is no best, it depends what you value. My point source speakers are going to image and stage better than the aforementioned Raidho big dollar ones, it's just physics. On the other hand, they probably do something better than mine. 
That being said I've heard numerous high dollar Raidho systems and they left me cold.  Again subjectivity. 
And elizabeth, I think what Erik said had a lot of merit. Sounds like you are just getting defensive. 

analogluvr

... Once you pass a certain price level it's about status and bling, not sound quality ...

What price is that for amplifiers, for example? What about speakers? What about turntables?

@cleeds obviously it's a moving target and it's different depending on each manufacturer. My rough estimate would be about 10 K. You  can't seriously think that in these hundred thousand dollar amplifiers there's 90,000 more technology than in a pair of well-built $10,000 amplifiers.  Obviously gold face plates and inch thick case work does not contribute to sound quality. 

Difficult to say given different expectations.
One problem is the heavy amplification in performance of so much music today, which puts an electronic filter at the head of live performance and judgment. That also applies to the acoustic choices of sound engineer and producer in recording.

My standard is live, unamplified music in an acoustically supportive space. My music listening is mainly  classical. My highest standard for orchestral music is the Concertgebouw Orchestra live in its home Concertegouw hall in Amsterdam. For chamber and solo the Wigmore Hall in London for performance acoustic. In the music I listen to, I often note the ambiance and effect of the recording acoustic on the immediacy of the performers.

However, the very act of recording can strive for concert experience or for its own esthetic to create a recorded musical event as a separate source.

This may seem specialist, but it could relate to whatever type of music is most important to the listener. . But for me recorded sound should relate as honestly as possible to high qualify live performance experience that reveals fine musicians in a communicative and convincing acoustic.