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my belief...

...is that there is a large difference between a system that gets it 98% right and 99% right. that is where the magic is -- in that last level of detail. it's the difference between me thinking, "hey, this sounds great" and *feeling* emotionally connected to the music.

of course, costs can rise exponentially and the value of that is completely subjective. is it worth it? only an individual can answer that for him/herself.

for what it's worth, i have often found that most people perceive "different" as "better" (initially). these kinds of changes come on strong, but they are not necessarily supplying long-term satisfaction. as i've moved "up" in audio pursuits, most changes have been subtle, but they are quite significant in long-term refinement.

the one point your argument misses is how to handle comparisons made over a long-term period.

one can agree with you and, say, study analog source A...then in a matter of hours (or the next day) replace it with source B. however, what happens when you want to compare source N with source A? what if 6 months or 2 years has elapsed?

you are assuming that one is always comparing to the item immediately prior. it gets more complex when you add more than 2 components in the mix and increase the time.

also, while i would never "review" a component by CDR, i *would* find something like the following valuable:
if some mythical person owned every company's flagship cartridge and offered to play a few tracks from several records with each cartridge on the same arm/table and record all cartridges onto on CDR, then i could get a *relative* sense of the differences between the cartridges.

would this indicate exactly how a cartridge would perform on a different table/arm/room/etc? no. but it might help understand the differences before making an investment.

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