About those souls who acquire over-hyped new equipment and become privy to previously unattainable degrees of sonic orgasms, I have always believed its that with new equipment one is, at first, totally in the moment trying to decide whether the new addition was worth it.
All things are improved by living in the present, by being attentive, by learning to hear… Unfortunately the supposed delta between old and new is quickly habituated away and one is left only with an artificial memory of any improvement.