a great take on big$ cables

This is a minor correction to my last post in this thread.

Jitter is measured in picoseconds, not nanoseconds. That's how sensitive clock circuits are. Jitter in the order of 300+ picoseconds already has a major impact on sound quality from a digital source. You'll hear that as a "fuzzy" imprecise soundtage.
One picosecond is one milionth of one milionth of a second, or ten to the minus twelve for you techies...
You don't need much to cause harm!

If I've decided there's do difference in cables (my dogma) and I'm stubborn enough, I'll probably never hear any difference in cables. That doesn't necessarily mean there is no difference. It just means that I refuse to hear them. That's fine, whatever floats your boat, but that doesn't mean everyone has to subscribe to your dogma. But why is it that there's always someone trying to convert others into believing their dogma? My dogma got run over by my kharma! BTW: The world is flat you know and the entire universe revolves around the earth.

SERUS

good info on rfi's affects on power cord's & i couldnt agree more,i know its an old peice of gear but one of my favorite peice's is the cary cad5500 cd processor which remove's rfi interference from cd playback,that single peice of gear make's a huge difference.

just to clear the record i'm not trying to convert anybody into believing anything about cable's but there is a point to everything & also an oponion & information.

anytime somebody put's out info from the other side of the cable camp its taken as a direct attack on cable owners instead of taking it as it was meant,have i heard difference's in cable's, power cord's & wire's with my own ear's,yes i have but do i think they are a upgrade,for the most part i do not.

my personal belief is that cable's & power cord's do infact work because ive heard them work but i also believe that the benifits obtained from running exotic cabeling can be matched & even beat by going in another direction like by running a (quality) preamp with tone controls as jaybo suggested above or by getting away from gear that runs in low ohmage's,serus made a fine point in his post about how shitty rfi can make things sound but there is gear made to handle that problem that can be used instead of running exotic cable's.

i would rather fix & or control weak problem area's within my system with electronic's that have resale value as oposed to running exotic cabeling & loosing 50% of my investment as soon as i buy them.

mike.

i would rather fix & or control weak problem area's within my system with electronic's that have resale value as oposed to running exotic cabeling & loosing 50% of my investment as soon as i buy them.

I generally buy used, and don't lose any money should I decide to re-sell the cables. Then I'm free to focus on the sonics, not the price.

Bigjoe: I agree that it's best to correct the problem at the source, but most people just buy equipment to listen, not to fix it...
Coming from some background in power electronics (many years ago...), I appreciate these issues. Unfortunately I find that quite often audio engineers concentrate on the audio part of their gear and the power supply is sort of an afterthought. Real sad!
But it's "only" a power supply... Dah!!!