Can I start some trouble?

I agree and disagree with darylhifi. I don't feel the "tone control" effect pertains to only the ultra-expensive cables. They are inherent in all cables of every price point.

Whether the "tone control" effect is done because cable companies are trying to justify their cost, that is another story.

... the quantity of threads like yours over crowding audiogon and you're not starting it It's been already started.

There are cables that worth every penny for the job done and there are cables that are just hide under precious design and suck a buck from your wallet.

Whenever the interconnect cable jumps over $300/m or speaker cable jumps over $100/foot per pair I consider it a ripoff that can sound different but not any better.

On the other side in most cases whenever you wish to downgrade your cables from $300/m to $50/m and than on the saved buck to upgrade a source you will win.

As a mathematician and engineer I can work on designing quantums of improvement that can bring any upgrade. I want to design totally relative physical measure which is points per buck :)

For real it's very simple: for every buck you spend to upgrade your source you get 60 "points" and with the cables you get only 15.

Marakanetz...Couldn't we just break it down to the lowest common denominator with your "point" system and call it 4 points for source and 1 point for cables.

Just asking...I'm no "mathematician", but I did study fractions in 4th grade. :)

All in good fun.

what if I say that if you upgrade your power-amp will be 43 points/buck?:)

Not sure what that means, nor how many "points" are on your scale, but if I understand correctly, I'd just round up to 3. (2.866)

Not to detract from this particular thread, but now I'm interested in understanding the point system that you've developed, Marakanetz. Would you mind telling us a bit more about it?

Thanks,

Dan