+1 Millercarbon. Every piece of wire matters as does every connector. This thread is like the 80's all over again.
Right. That is how far back you have to go. That is how far behind the times some people are.
Synergistic Research came out with the Master Coupler more than 30 years ago. Even before then it was known there's a lot more to wire than the engineers were telling us. But the Master Coupler and some others were so clearly, obviously, undeniably better than ordinary wire that the whole debate was settled last millennium.
For people today to still so out of it, it really is like going back in time to the 80's. The joke is they're the ones thinking they're all Mr Science. Clueless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0KyTZ3Ie4
Freebie rubber power cords good enough? As if!