@millercarbon,
"Technically it is the system that makes the recordings shine. Or should be."
We know that plainly isn’t the case. Not even technically.
Au contraire mon frere, it is precisely the case, technically and in every other way. High fidelity literally means highly faithful. The very best any component can do is - nothing. The perfect component passes the signal perfectly, neither adding nor subtracting anything.
Okay so that being the case then for certain the absolutely perfect system will do nothing but let the recordings shine- exactly what I said.
What about the non-perfect systems?
There’s little getting away from the fact that differences between recordings are far greater than the differences between any decent or semi-decent systems.
Really? The recordings we all buy are all professional. That is, again, literally the definition of the term: professional, done for money. Where all our systems are by definition amateur. Usually I would say done for love, as that is literally the meaning of the word. The root of amateur is the same as amorous, out of love. In your case however we are not so sure and will leave it as not for money. Unlike myself, who whatever else you may say about me you certainly seem to find me professional, surely no one would ever offer you money for whatever the heck it is you do.
Anyway, this being the case, recordings are professional while our systems are amateur. So in order for you to be right you would have to be saying amateurs are better and more consistent than professionals.
Since when?
Even you must, as the remainder of your post above went on to illustrate. Unless of course you were singularly referring to your much vaunted - yet seemingly high strung, system alone.
The problem with this lame attempt at disparaging my system is all the people who have heard it and left their comments on my system page.
How many times have we heard you declare that the smallest change can make its sound become unlistenably drab?
Never. Not a one. If I did find it, prove me wrong.