Power Cables

@dmance...

  I think we just don’t know enough about electricity 

Interestingly - I believe you are not wrong.

I spoke with an "electronics technician" that repaired a friends solid state amp which "self destructed" due to the speaker cables he had used.

He had never heard of amps being driven to a state of oscilation due to the use of high capacitance speaker cables.

That's someone on the technical side of the industry not being aware of, what I consider, a basic design "consideration". 

So what other things are people in the industry not aware of ???

I shudder to think :-)

Regards - Steve

No shirt, Sherlock? How about power cords, fuses, isolation, directionality of wire, contact enhancer, to name a few?

"the mains is only directly in use 5 to 10% of the time since the power supply system’s inherent design is to fill capacitors that provide smoothed and constant direct current for the supply rails that ultimately amplify the signal"

Then, once the BFCap's are charged to peak voltage, only a "trickle" charge is needed to sustain my 150Watt amplifier? Are you folks nutz? At very low volume level my Adcom 545II breaks-up into heavy distortion and dies completely in only one or two seconds after switching off power.
The only ones "not knowing enough about electricity" are those buying-in to concepts like this!

P.S. The power cable can not "assist" in delivering more AC current than the amplifier’s power transformer is capable of delivering once its iron core is magnetically ’saturated’ and the reservoir capacitors are sagging!

Yes, that's how it works. I'll provide a link. If an amplifier is correctly designed, "sagging capacitors" amounts to a cable marketing blurb. If you think any substantial amount of juice for your volume control is coming directly from the cable you paid a lot of $ for then you're not following the design topology and you're listening to music with your wallet.

http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/power-management/linear-power-supply-psu/basics-tutorial.php

“It would be silly to pack an 18 gauge power cable with a McIntosh, so they get a cable that at least "looks the part" and maintain their credibility”

My McIntosh MC2200 (200 wpc into 8, 4, and 2 ohms) has a stock and captive two prong power cord that is just about as “heavy” as the cord on the lamp sitting on my end table. Go figure.