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Cable vs. Electronics: biggest bang for the buck

I recently chronicled in a review here, my experience with a very expensive interconnect. The cables cost nearly $7000 and are well beyond my reach. The issue is, the Pursit Dominus sound fantastic. Nothing in my stereo has ever sounded so good. I have been wondering during and since the review how much I would have to spend to get the same level of improvement. I'm sure I could double the value of my amp or switch to monoblocks of my own amps and not obtain this level of improvement.
So, in your opinion what is the better value, assuming the relative value of your componants being about equal? Is it cheaper to buy, great cables or great electronics? Then, which would provide the biggest improvement?
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nrchy OP
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It strikes me as somewhat interesting that Jung has so many fans here, inasmuch as he was a Nazi sympathizer and sometimes fan. So much for a solid philosophical base!
detlof
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Nrchy yes, he was a political fool, realised too late what was going on in the "Reich", but was fascinated not by the man Hitler, but by the phenomenon Hitler and the sort of mass psychosis which was going on in Germany at the time, it seemed to fit his theories. He had an opportunstic streak, which let him play along with his Nazi collegues, at the same time he sincerely tried with some success to help his Jewish collegues as long as he could. It is a complex story, with lots of dark and some more positive sides to it and he acknowleged that he had failed in his later years. I feel as far as that.. and only that... is concerned,one has to differentiate between Jung the man and his findings. If I can use these, to understand and help people better, solid philophical base or not, I will use them gladly. But it is a different story of course, if I concern myself with Jung the man. A man may be a villain of whatever shade, but his ideas may change a small part world for better. It is not as easy as you suggest.
asa
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Kill Jung!! Kill Jung!!

Or, maybe not...
detlof
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Rather not kill him ASA, we need him, since the righteous, the politically correct and the Philistines are generally in the majority. He certainly was none of that.
asa
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Oh darn, detlof, and here I thought I was getting stoked for a good book burning! Went out back to the garage to get my rake and everything (mutter, mutter...)

Nrchy, I hear ya, though; that's why I questioned the "stability" of Jung's insights as a permanent structure. I think you have to understand, though, that like Jesse Helms, who likes to bandy about the Nazi word when convenient, fascism is used in many academic circles in reverse order: you accuse another of being a "Hitler", or a follower, or even an adherent of Nietsche, and suddenly the argument becomes that nothing you say has merit. Academics are, and rightfully so, sensitive to such associations that lead to censorship of ideas. I don't think you were doing that necessarily - I'm just havin' fun - but one has see how this can be misinterpreted (oh, I think detlof was just having fun too)

Besides, and trust me, detlof knows more about Nazism that you or I will ever know.
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