Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp...

Certainly, decent power cords are must-have items in a system of this caliber. However, I would not go crazy with big buck spending on power cords for tube amplification--most tube gear seem to be not as sensitive to power cord changes as are solid state amplifiers/linestages. Where power cords seem to matter most in a tube-based system is with things like digital sources (DAC, music server, etc.).

Mikorob,
For interconnects, kind of a sad mishmash of budget Audioquest and Kimber.

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For speaker cable, I use Supra Classic 6.0 I discovered it when I was looking for cabling for my Merlin TSM-mmi's. I was looking for something that conformed to Bobby P.'s parameters but wasn't in the bankruptcy-inducing price range of the Cardas stuff that he prefers. I thought it sounded very good. Bobby got some samples and declared that the Supra cable was (his words) "stupid good" for the price, and he recommends it now to customers (I believe) as his go-to budget speaker cable option.

Almarg,
Hi. PM'ed you with a couple of questions. Thanks!

Rebbi,
I'm going to suggest an interconnect that I recently found out about and purchased myself with wonderful results. Dirt cheap as well. Please go to Jeff Day’s Wordpress web page (Jeff is a writer for Positive Feedback as well as formerly, 6 Moons) and you will see an article he wrote on a SPEC integrated amplifier from a Japanese builder for Positive Feedback. The Japanese builder sent Jeff some Belden 8402 microphone cable utilized as interconnect. Read Jeff's comments, the Japanese builder's comments (he is a great 300B builder of amps), and about 42 comments from individuals responding to Jeff from guys like me who purchased this interconnect. It performs as stated by Jeff and everyone else that commented on the interconnect. Jeff provides a link to the seller of these Belden 8402 cables. They are no longer made. Terminated with Sonicraft RCAs they will set you back about $35. They are remarkable, Jeff compares them to his long term expensive Sablon stuff. The Japanese 300B Maven compares the sound to his ancient Western Electric 274B with etched code. Not to be confused with later WE iteration, or modern 274B. I concur with all statements in article and comments. YMMV, but I gave it a shot and am amazed. Best.

I forgot to include a link. Here it is: http://jeffsplace.me/wordpress/?p=7325