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amp question

Here a question thats interest's me and was therefore hoping anyone else has an opinion or personal experience on.

With budget of around $10,000 -$12,000 for a pre/power amp. Has anybody, after of course auditioning several suitable options. Decided to instead of spending the complete budget on what ever particular pre/ amp they decided on. To purchase a cheaper model possibly from same manufacture in such a way as to leave enough budget to be able to buy as well a 'state of the art' support for it, such as made by SRA, Silent Running, Vibraplane etc along with say a very specialist power cable again just for example, Nordost Valhalla etc. In either the believe or from actual experience that this alternative approach to the budgeting has given better results. For example.Buying a Pass Labs integrated with a specialist support and cable instead of their cheapest seperate's with just a normal type rack and cables.
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rayooo
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Personally I've always spent every drop of budget on the major components...and then proceeded to experiment with cables etc. and thus exceed the original budget.
..maybe a bad habit, but I've been unable to break it so far.

However, I've never spent $5k on a power amp and then bought a $3k power cord for it.

If I had to estimate, I'd say on my current system, the cables etc. probably comprise 10-15% of total system cost.
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