HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ?

@ghdprentice

I support you in using cables and interconnects made by Transparent. I also use their power cords in order.

Cables tend to color the sound for better or worse. This is a factual comment. There is considerable creativity in making cables.

Transparent’s cables and the accompanying network box that’s attached to the cable which tends to adjust for impact on the sonic integrity along the harmonic range as impacted by cables. I like that.

I also believe the more money you spend makes you feel better and clearly you can spend a ton of money on cables and interconnect. Its absurd how much you can spend in this area

I also like the power isolator made by transparent. This is a company located in Maine and they seem to be nice people up there, very helpful and speaking to me about technical aspects of whatever it is they do.

crawfishdaddi

I've been down this road a bit and my answer is a little nuanced ... once you have a cable that is: 1. Well constructed 2. Well shielded and 3. Well terminated, you will get little to no improvement in sound quality by "upgrading" ...

That's not "nuanced" at all. That's dogmatic.

@cleeds ... uh, ok?

    "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."  (Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872) 

     "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"  (Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873)

      "The super computer is technologically impossible.  It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." (Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University)                        

      "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."  (Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923)

      "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." (Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television)

      "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible!" (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895) 

      "The bomb will never go off.  I speak as an expert in explosives."  (Admiral William Leahy, re: US Atomic Bomb Project)

      "The difference between a ~$100 RCA and a $10,000 RCA is little to none at all (most of the improvement will be WELL below the audible range of humans).    (crawfishdaddi, Dunning-Kruger Exemplar)

     When the steam locomotive came on the scene; the best (scientific) minds proclaimed, "The human body cannot survive speeds in excess of 35MPH."

      Until recently (21st Century); and the advent of the relatively new science of Fluid Dynamics, the best (scientific) minds involved in Aerodynamics, could not fathom how a bumblebee stays aloft. 

     Often; Science has to catch up with the facts/phenomena of Nature and/or, "reality" (our universe). 

     I haven't been in school since the 60's, but- at Case Institute of Technology; the Physics Prof always emphasized what we were studying was, "Electrical THEORY."  He strongly made a point of the fact that no one had yet actually observed electrons (how they behave on the quantum level) and that only some things can really be called, "LAWS." (ie: Ohm, Kirchoff, Faraday)   

                         PERHAPS: that's changed in recent years and I missed it?