Thiel Owners

prof...

Excellent commentary on perhaps the most contested aspect of assembling a high fidelity system.  At the end of the day the single-most important component in any setup is one's head. 

I used to go to the local stereo stores and buy spools of speaker wire. Back in them days components came with the plugs already.  There wasn't a helluva lot of tweaking latitude then. 

- "The best part, one does not have to spend big money, to make it happen. In fact, always buy used or demo and save a bit of coin. Every audiophile can afford quality cabling -you would be foolish otherwise." -

Completely agree!

As an example of this: I had the opportunity to own some very highly regarded - and expensive - Shunyata power cables.  Universally praised at that time.   Did I detect a difference?  With one of them, the most expensive, yes!  I was just about sold.  Then to double check, I had a friend help me blind test them against a standard military grade $15 power cable.  Turned out I couldn't actually hear any difference.  I often detected just the same "improvement" when the $15 cable was in the system.  The mind is funny like that :-)

So as you say, I didn't have to spend big money - that cheaper power cord was all the quality I needed - and agree it would have been foolish of me to choose otherwise ;-)

Precisely! oblgny-

I used Monster Cable spool wire and patch cords back in the 80's to the early 90's.  Around the mid-1990's I switched over to some entry level Tara Labs and it really made a difference (mid-fi gear at that juncture).

Happy Listening!

Good to see you- prof

excellent example.  There are many hidden values to be discovered.
Appears that you found your in the form of a PC.

Happy Listening!

Hello again- claero

I listen at high volumes. If your system is too bright at that level,  try experimenting with cables and power cords to "tone" down the presentation.

Happy Listening!