Now, I'm confused.

Regarding fuses and speaker wire - neither will give you an improvement in sound quality - regardless of what the "golden ears" crowd says! I have been in this hobby for 40+ years and am appalled by the level of "magical" thinking about wire (and now fuses)! Hucksterism to entrap the gullible!

213runnin: And that silver content of the Morrow cables is good for killing werewolves!

For the most life-like sound in any room the Ohm Walsh's beat the competition hands down! I have a pair and they do indeed produce a 3-D image superior to any box speaker. And from ANY spot in the room - uncanny! Mine are the Sound Cylinders.

roberjerman
Regarding fuses and speaker wire - neither will give you an improvement in sound quality - regardless of what the "golden ears" crowd says! I have been in this hobby for 40+ years and am appalled by the level of "magical" thinking about wire (and now fuses)! Hucksterism to entrap the gullible!

Uh, once I got to the part about, “ I have been in this hobby for 40+ years and...” I stopped reading. Was that wrong? 🙄

I have had a GFA555 and a GFP750 for my vinyl system for many years and I also have a NAD c165BEE preamp in another system. I've paired both preamps with my other amps - McIntosh MC2200 and Vincent SP-331 and none gave me the wide/deep soundstage I was looking for. So I decided to try a tube preamp - Aric Audio Unlimited, and the difference was shocking. I ultimately left the Adcom system the same because of the good phono stage in the GFP750 but the combination of the Unlimited with either of the other amps throws a huge soundstage - same speakers (Vandersteen 2Ci), same location, etc. The moral of the story is; if you want a soundstage and don't want to spend thousands on a mega SS preamp, try a tube preamp, even a moderately priced piece could give you what you want. The lush and charming sound is the icing on the cake.