Since I have never listened to live music in my room, and you can never listen live music if you are listening to an audio system, I just get the component that makes music sound most enjoyable to me (after I listen a while). Since no two components are identical sometimes it takes a while to sort out the differences and choosing the one which does most of the important things for me well and matches the rest of my system. I envy you being able to accomplish this in 10 seconds. I always get bogged down in this synergy thing. :-)
I agree with Tireguy in general and especially with those Silver cables. They never lasted in my system either, and I'm very suspicious of components (mods as well) which use silver wire.
I agree with Tireguy in general and especially with those Silver cables. They never lasted in my system either, and I'm very suspicious of components (mods as well) which use silver wire.