@kota1 and @coralkong We obviously think alike. There is a point of demarcation, especially for trained listeners, where we know what we are hearing and can over 30 days make a "sound" decision.
I guess in the circle I run with, remastering engineers, musicians, audio equipment manufacturers and audiophile friends are too stupid and uneducated to know better than test and measure audio equipment to prove they have made the correct choice. I don't think so.
@westcoastaudiophile My neighbor and friend did not have anyone criticize his system but he heard others and knew there was something missing. His system had/has great ambient soundstaging, good tone color and dynamics. Many of his recordings sounded listenable. Others did not. My system pointed out to him that his was missing consistency, just like my choice of a Dynavector 20X2 L cartridge, whereby all my LPs sound was elevated, or my digital system which makes so many of my mono recordings (especially jazz) sound as real as stereo. His system was so inaccurate that when a bass was played, it had notes up and down the scale come forward and recede, a highly irregular frequency response. Once the new power cables were installed, playing a bass was a gripping experience with no holes in the scale. My best two friends visited him as well and the one with the Golden Ear hearing within five minutes discovered further anomalies such as a metal sculpture and an open fireplace on the sidewalls were disfiguring the sound acoustically. We closed off the fireplace and removed the sculpture and the sound became more coherent. My neighbor was very thankful for the help. His other cabling is Kubala Sosna and high end Siltech which sounds just fine in his system.