What is your experience with the law of diminishing returns ?

What is odd is I have the opposite experience. When I had mid fi stuff, wire made no difference. It was all the main equipment that caused changes. When I have better mid fi stuff I could barely hear changes with a few wires. Now, I have a really good mid fi, bumping High end, and damn, each and every wire swap making minute changes I can easily hear. At the same time, the equipment sound changes are small. almost as small as the wires..

You guys gotta check it out. Low mass inexpensive systems are where it’s at. No more house AC, AC ground, no more speakers, speaker cables, amplifiers, preamps, interconnects, digital cables, fuses, no more transformers. No more distortion. No more noise. No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks. 🧐

So there it was...

A different perspective...
Twenty years ago, when I had better ears and a less expensive audio system, I made a visit to the local high-end store. I had $5k invested in used equipment (ARC tubes, Soundlab Dynastats, HGS sub). Listened to my reference music on an $80k new system (Martin Login top of the line bi-amped with four Krell monster mono amps, etc.).

The higher end system definitely sounded a lot better. The 3D soundstage really stuck in my mind. After an hour of listening I walked out of the store with a big grin on my face thinking I didn't really hear $75k of difference.

Yeah, we can try to fool ourselves and at times we can even be successful.