Musicnoise
Your background is similar to my own, yet quite more accomplished, and it accounts for the reasoning or perspectives you espouse. I too, agreed with it for an exceptional period of time. In fact I thought it a big laugh when the subject came around.
Personally however, a whole bunch of experience in one area doesn't always relate to another very well. Subjectivity isn't a bad word... you can say it in front of mixed company and children without severe reprocussions.
i think much of the opinionated controversy on who's who, and what's best or better here, can and does enable others to glean both different perspectives and increases in system performance. However, it is not a thing which accounts for empirical measurements. always
There are exceptions to rules sometimes, as I recall from my math classes.
The impact of a rainbow simply has no measure, save for that which is attached to it by the viewer himself. Albeit, that phenomenon can be accounted for as to its origins.
I feel these, sometimes singularly so, accounts of change by introducing new cabling or for that matter tubes, into ones system is akin to that same rainbow scenario. The impact the noted change delivers is assigned value solely by that person.
Wether I or anyone else submit some notion of our experience (s) and another takes it, in this case Papajoe, for some simple truth, doesnt matter quite so much as does the experience the receiver encounters.
In sales, one gets far more No thanks than they do, Ill take it. Not every Ill take it statement Ive made has been my best solution, nor even THE best overall.
If varying opinions, ongoing efforts to improve an audio system through the path of changing this or that now and then, or simple trial and error, werent the norm, it wouldnt be considered a hobby. No one here has a crystal ball, calculator, or existential powers sufficient enough to proclaim any item as an exact right move for another as the variables in recreating a particular sound are to great. Unlike rooms, gear types, accouterments, ears, and yep, even O scopes, etc.
Slide rules and opinions both point towards a prescribed goal with equal merit. For quite a few around here and elsewhere, their fun is in the doing and not entirely in the end result, or the being. I tend to differ in that one respect though. Im more an, Are we there yet? sort. Therefore my consternation level runs a mite higher at times and Im more stayed and conservative with the moves I make to alter my rig.
So ya knock and no one answers . Knock on another door. Its only when one stops knocking which prevents knowledge and new experiences to be gained. The sum of our knowledgeable experiences does constitute the level of our wisdom.
Ive found so far in the whole of my experiences in life, contempt prior to investigation is a definite bar to achieving gain . And not everything makes sense at every turn. Ive become reasonably suited to the notion that Sometimes, it just bees that way. Too.
