Power Cables diminishing returns

Sweet spot is whatever VH or Pangea is priced at your comfort level.
You won't feel bad with a cheap ZU Birth either.

It's tiresome listening to the Flat Earth Society explain what a human being hears in terms of math and Newtonian psychics.
A human is a miracle of integrated being that hears with its ears, eyes, brain, CNS ,memory, conscious cells in its stomach and many other ways we know nothing about. Not to mention its soul. Of course if you can't see something you have trouble discerning, as you do with seeing if you can't hear.
Conductors in their 80's who can't hear a 5kz tone, routinely correct players playing 10hz tones!

We humans are several orders of magnitude beyond explanation
by Quantum means, much less by some fool running a double-blind "test".
There are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your tests , Horatio.

One of them is when you leave the mystical out of the musical equation I don't know what answer you may get, but I do know it will be wrong.

Zd542, me either-I've swapped tuners and had the whole system change when playing CD.
I think the variables involved in both ears and gears are infinite, to me the fun of audio is "whats next".

I can get carried away by Bach on a boombox.

Well they must be stone deaf then, I'm 78 and can EASILY hear differences.

Shipo, one needs no golden ear, just being human is enough.
Your ego prevents you from seeing all humans are gifted and blessed, even you.

That's funny Pops !

I once heard the Navy Admiral in charge of all Naval Aviation explain why he preferred to recruit engineers as Naval Pilots.
He said that, as a rule ,they were both intelligent and without enough imagination to see themselves smashing into the rear of the flight deck during night landings.

Coming from someone I know to be wise, that means a lot to me, Brownsfan.

Most of the research big Pharma moans about is done with taxpayer cash at universities.

Roxy54, guilty as charged, I was harsh on Mapman who is a nice guy. I still think OHM is a ripof but then I've had trouble with them a time or two.

In any event I should have kept my big mouth shut on that.

Thanks, Roxy.

"Ah music , a magic beyond all we do here ,,,,, "

Albus Dumbledore

CharlesIdad, I remember reading Einstein in college where he said if some constant or other in the universe was different by one part in a million the law of gravity would not work.
Thus for him it took more faith to believe in a scientific explanation of the universe than an intelligent creator thesis.

I highly doubt if any big corp doesn't see LOTS of taxpayer cash. if only through the 8000 plus tax dodges their lobby lads have provided them.
Big Pharma got hundreds of billions when their lobby got Medicare D, aka Pharma Profits Act, passed with the no negotiating proviso.
VA pays 1/3 of what Medicare pays, big Pharma wasn't going to allow that to happen again.