Moved Audio Quest cable to my DAC. WOW

@vanson1

Congrats on an improvement that was clearly beneficial to you.

It sounds like you own AQ’s NGR "X" series cable. IF you purchased this from a dealer (hopefully close by?) you might want to see if you can borrow the upgrade "Y" and/or "Z" series cables for a home audition. If you got a "Wow" from the X cable, you may be encorporating the use of explicit language to describe what you’ll be hearing from the upgrades. Your system is definitely NOT a budget system, so it appears (to me) that you have plenty of headroom for "reasonable" investments in SQ improvements. Worth a try?

@waytoomuchstuff Love the term “intellectual humility.”  I wish more people here would practice that over their intellectual arrogance.  You’re right — we simply don’t know what we don’t know.  This is exactly why most of us simply use and trust our ears.  Not that we’re infallible, but I’ll take our ears over scientific instruments any day and feel sorry for those in this hobby who can’t do that. 

@soix +1, +2, +3 ... +99

Speaks to a very poor power supply for the dac originally. What’s the name of the dac. Upstream components generally have better power supplies. Amplifiers are the best place for a power cord with a large 10 gauge. Mcintosh doesn’t believe in power cables of quality for some reason.

 Mcintosh doesn’t believe in power cables of quality for some reason.

McIntosh are designed by engineers. They have test gear. They don't have to 'believe'.

If someone could point me to a measured difference between amplifier power cables at the speaker, I'd be eternally appreciative.