Mahgister - what an interesting guy, his methods inspired me to make efforts with power supply (Puritan PSM-156), room acoustics (effective absorption on the front wall between speakers) and his ideas were to get the most out of your gear before spending loads of money on more gear, or better gear. I organised more isolation, and finally used my AMG toppers. PP products.
It’s really a more balanced approach, to make what you already have work better, integrate a synergistic approach where everything matters. Equally.
Others have said it (you know who you are), Mahgister just kept at it, until hopefully some listened to the logic. Budget dependent choices of implementation of his criteria, based upon good reasoning.
Let’s face it, the greatest components plonked down in a room isn’t going to sound anywhere near it’s best. Hopefully anyone coming in here isn’t going to read the top three posts and build his system based solely on those??
Correctly implemented "tweeks" as I read them called, really do save money and can develop a better experience. I’m not saying having a solid foundation isn’t important in the system recipe, but you can double the budget and leave out doing something that despite being less expensive, gains more sound quality than simply throwing money at the issues.
Most of us have already invested in speakers, amplifiers, front end signal sources and these are obviously the big ticket items. I can see why much less expensive items as the OP has suggested are things to talk about, because they are next step items to get better performance with what we’ve already chosen.
I haven’t changed out a fuse yet, it is part of the power supply, as far as I’m concerned. Logic dictates that if cables of any form can make any difference, fuses probably can too (again, I haven’t gotten to it yet).
Even after you guys bully him off the site even that is not enough, you have to trash his legacy. Disgraceful.
@mahgister - hope this finds you in good health.
