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Originally Posted by krmathis 
I live perfectly fine not knowing what I miss out of... 
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ERS Paper made everything more revealing. I can hear the warm-up of my system much easier now. Before when I warmed up my system for 12 hours the difference was only subtle, but now it's HUGE! I thought the Adam A7 speakers were bad which didn't reveal the warm-up process as well as my K1000, but now I have found that it's not true, the A7 are very good, I just needed to wrap my whole system with ERS Paper to hear that.
ERS Paper gives real improvements, not the side step "improvements" from EMU0404 to dCS Elgar Plus DAC or other "reference" sources. I have tried many expensive gear and they just made the sound worse. When I had dCS sources for $31 000 I didn't hear any improvements, I only heard a side step into a different flavor. The EMU0404 USB is $200 and is better IMO.
If there are no tweaks, the high-end gear are better because they cover up the brightness which makes the music more relaxing and easier to hear. I also used tubes for a while because the brightness was too big. But high-end gear are just a band-aid to cover up the real problems.
I also used Valhalla power cables to veil the sound, when Valhalla with Dual Filaments is used for the AC power signal it worsens and weakens the signal because the conductors vibrate more (AC vibrates more than DC). With Valhalla power I got the complete opposite effect of Virtual Dynamics vibration dampened power cables!
I only use Valhalla's Dual Filament technology for low-level analog signals where a low dielectric is important. Dual Filament technology is 3+ times better than Single Filament when used as analog interconnect.