Dana you should bring one of your cheapo PC over to compare with some of my old ones. Probably not that far apart on price but a lot better on performance I bet. If nothing else it will be useful to demonstrate the irrelevance of gauge. Amps has nothing to do with it. Both the ones you heard demo'd were the same gauge, the same amp rating, the same everything. Just not the same sound. Even the connectors cannot be judged that way. The ones you heard, the builder tried much more expensive connectors and didn't use them. They look real nice, they sure seem superior on paper. Only problem, they don't sound as good.
This is the crux of the whole thing. More or less a total waste of time to talk about "tweaks" as the word can mean anything. Leads to colossally wrong conclusions.
The biggest difference I can see so far is when people who know tweaks work, when they talk about tweaks they mean the ones that work. When someone wants to disparage tweaks or diminish their value they talk about obvious total garbage.
Harley said "many" tweaks are garbage- and then gave as an example a few tweaks that are total garbage. There really is no argument or dispute here. The question is what about the ones that are not only not garbage, but that work and work well?
A little apples to apples honesty will go a long ways here.
This is the crux of the whole thing. More or less a total waste of time to talk about "tweaks" as the word can mean anything. Leads to colossally wrong conclusions.
The biggest difference I can see so far is when people who know tweaks work, when they talk about tweaks they mean the ones that work. When someone wants to disparage tweaks or diminish their value they talk about obvious total garbage.
Harley said "many" tweaks are garbage- and then gave as an example a few tweaks that are total garbage. There really is no argument or dispute here. The question is what about the ones that are not only not garbage, but that work and work well?
A little apples to apples honesty will go a long ways here.