yeah the higher resolution / precision etc ... you will hear them more, im lucky to have very good hearing at my age
same for tv's or else loll you see more defects ... impurities ... artefacts ... i remember the complaints When Sony Trinitron came into market loll peoples saw too much loll
you get high end dacs, but now the amp doesn't follow and the speakers too ...
i played with what they called high end stuff at the time, like DAT or high end cd players with external DACS, or the DAC chip ... ones you could buy and change them on the main pcb's etc ...
You could hear the difference in the cds recording mode : digital digital etc ... digital analog .... on 20,000 $/ea speakers loll
Played with Carver, high end amplifiers, wow, i had formation to repair them loooooong time ago loll
You have Mosfets based amplifiers with a bandwith and frequency response so incredibly straight from 10hz to 50 Khz ....
you alway end up missing something, unless you buy an huge kit, once and for all loll
For the tubes, i always hear a tube is "warmer" in sound vs electronic ones (transistors / mosfets etc ... a class a-b class) even heard those who are called G - H class, or the D i think, it like an smps amplifier running at very high frequencies 1Mhz or more ...
Tubes amp could take more "beating" than others ... some of my old friends whant tubes amps, tube guitar amps loll end of an era loll
oh and yes like the previous thread, going down into normal "cheap stuff" is like .......... crying and banging you head on a wall