Money Well spent

@millercarbon: Here’s a digital punch in the arm (re: Synergistic).

                         YOU OWE ME A COKE!

     Well: I figure within two minutes, in here, is pretty close, anyway.

     Especially, the way I type (ie: Columbus Method/discover and land) then post, proof-read, hit edit, correct, post, proof-read, hit edit, correct, post... ad nauseum)!

      btw: Thanks again for the ENTER tip.     Can you tell; I'm having fun with it?

@geleary:     Here's a suggestion, Sarge.

      Try something from these guys, which will allow you to test various cables, for a fraction of the cost of buying and returning.

      Don't know your price range or system, but: if you call them and let them know, they can make some good recommendations.

      I'm posting the Synergistic interconnects page, because they make some great cables.  At least: I've never been disappointed by them.

          https://www.thecableco.com/cables/interconnects/synergistic_research.html

       Kimber's another cable company, with which I've been very happy and that also has a variety of good stuff at various price levels:

   https://www.thecableco.com/cables/interconnects/kimber_kable.html

        If you should buy something from them; they deduct the rental fee from the total price.

                  Happy listening and enjoy this, much more pleasant, "tour"!

@geleary:     Based on the way you've described your service; I'm guessing you passed through Nha Trang, once or twice and have been places we Americans never were?

@geleary123 aka: Sgt  ge leary   USMC:

          Situational awareness training, as you certainly MUST know, has kept MANY breathing, above ambient temperature and on the green side of the dirt!

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                 https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA535225.pdf


           Just the knowledge that you're having troubles with one ear; has cleared up a major mystery, in my mind, as to why you're not hearing improvements in your system, with various cables.

            ie: In my system: the vast majority of enhancements have been subtle (others: not so) and primarily in the areas of imaging, ambiance recovery, listening further into the sound stage, etc.

            In other words: things that involve something scientifically referred to as, "auditory spatial perception":

                   https://pstnet.com/auditory-spatial-perception/

             Something of which most aren't even aware, but: as both of us surely have found, can mean the difference between coming home in one piece, or not.
                   ESPECIALLY when faced with people trying to kill you.

             Try some of the following tests, with your system and see if the expected results/sound paths, as described, are present to your hearing and with your current system.  Then: with some new interconnects.

                   https://www.stereophile.com/features/772/index.html 

                   
                   https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_ledr.php

            With all do respect, SARGE: THANK YOU, for your service.
 
                  GOD BLESS and SEMPER FI (my brother in arms)!

@petg60- PLEASE, don’t even go there!

     I’m still using an old fart style, Motorola Razr (flip phone).

                                         OUCH!

     I don't even turn it on; unless I intend to PLACE a call (WAY too much robo and spam).

     To clarify, "... cut a piece to the same width of the outlet..." should have been, "...cut a piece, the same width as the double duplex cover plate...".

      AND: the parenthesis after Romex: should have been a comma, since the Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation Police are patrolling this thread (yeah, yeah: I'm guilty, as well).

      Undoubtedly: there's more (it's hard to be perfect, ALL the time).

      I should (probably) hire someone to proof-read, whenever I'm at a keyboard!  

                    Is typing SUPPOSED to be this exhausting?

     I believe Spell* + Grammar Checker for English, both to be available on the Net, wherever one lives.                  *That's what all those little, red squiggles, you must have jumping off the page are about, geleary123.

      Perhaps, in some parts of the world; it's harder to get one's EARS checked?

        "...so  who makes  great cables &  NO i Don't want Garden Hoses  behind my audio rack that  don't bend or are so heavy they have to tired up in order not pull down &  fall out..."

                                       Funny, you should mention that!

        Synergistic Research makes GREAT cables and a couple of mine are iterations of their Power Masters, which ARE (pretty much) the size of garden hose (which ISN'T a proper name, btw) and stiff as a wedding di..., well: you get the drift!

         I don't own any high-dollar outlets, NOT that I don't believe they'd make a further improvement, but DID get the best Hospital Safety Grade outlets that I could afford, because they're installed (fed by two runs of 10/2 Romex) twisted around one another), pretty high up on the wall.

         I didn't want those lovely sounding, heavy and stiff, suckers stressing the outlets, which I knew wouldn't let go and causing any problems.  SO: found a piece of 1/8" (3.175 mm) aluminum sheet and cut a piece to the same width of the outlet, by about 8" (20.32 cm) long.    Then: put a 90 degree bend down at the back and a 45 degree bend, up and back (front), on a sheet metal brake.   Screwed it to the wall; as support for those babies.

                                                           VOILA!

          There's 2", wedged, acoustic foam behind my system and to keep my larger cables, such as the afore mentioned and my Tesla Apex pair, from pulling out of to whatever they're attached; I made hooks out of wire coat hangers* and they work GREAT, stuck in the foam.
          *OH CRAP, mommy, my bad! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc)                                    


                              YOU TOUCH'A MY CABLES: I BREAK'A YOU ARMS!
                                          ders dem squiggles again, dam it