Has Anyone Criticized The Choice Of Your Cables?

Sounds like you respect these guy's opinions, seems your bound to try their suggestions.

Don't you find it odd the one guy "strongly advocates" cables he carries! Now, to be fair, perhaps he has tried many others, still....

Advocating only stock power cables is very strange to me, what makes stock power cables inherently more natural than any other power cable, this is blathering nonsense.

Ryder, given your last disclosure, it would seem that you already have a pretty good idea of what to think about about that person's opinion. A dealer with strong opinions who 'strongly advocates' what he carries is, well, just that. If you believe the power cords sound better than stock, it's what you think which counts. If he is willing to back that strong opinion with a 3-week in-home demo of the ICs and SC he carries, well, that might be an interesting opportunity. If at the end you think it is worth changing, you learned something. If not, you learned something too.

What you have is a "Dear Ann Landers" situation, where Ann would say some combination of the response on the order of "Some people are rude and are just that way. If you don't like their rudeness, stay away from them." I would add, if you can make use of their opinion, why not get something from it.

For the record, I'm not going to try his suggestions of using stock cords. That is drivel to me as well but still it is solely his opinion. In order not to end up with a heated argument, his advice entered my right ear but went out through my left.

So he's a dealer......figures. I've always found it rather amusing when dealers have told me my gear, cables, etc. are crap, and fortunately for me, they carry the "good" stuff. I especially love it when they use phrases like "blows your X away" or " kills your X".

Just shrug and laugh it off....it's cheap entertainment.

Cheers,
John

What's good about OEM PC's? Nothing!
Why? Two words:
Underwriter's Laboratory

Now you know.

You should all be glad most manufacturers don't waste your money (and their own) by providing anything more than the minimum necessary to meet UL rules.

Don't get me wrong. OEM PC's will work - barely! Their conductor size (AWG) will be the minimum required by the power consumption of the equipment they come with. And if that equipment is digital and radiates RFI? then the cable will also be a shielded cable. EXCEPT (as required by UL) the shield will be connected to the ground conductor at both ends - a guaranteed hum antenna!
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