Power cord into power amp

Now that one of your strongly held beliefs about your system has, upon experimentation, proved to be false, does this make you less confident about anything else you believe must be true about hi-fi systems?

The analog portion of my cd player is battery-powered as well. A lot of work went into isolating the rf-producing digital side of the cd player from the analog side.

I can recommend the Marigo Ultra 5 power cables (connected to the amplifiers) as exceptional at reducing rf. They turned unpedigreed SS amplifiers into world-beaters.

I'm not familiar with the amp you mention. Is it entirely battery-powered, or just a portion of it? I can't imagine a battery large enough to power significant speakers.

I was intrigued by the forcefulness of your prior (should I say "a priori") view of how to connect your system, and how actually trying something different totally and unexpectedly changed this for you. I've experienced this myself on a number of occasions in recent years.

For example, after having used a Marigo cd mat for years, I one day forgot to use it, and was amazed at how much better the sound was without it.

For another: I thought there was no way that unpedigreed SS amps could compete with the Atmasphere MA-1s I used to have in my system. (A friend recommended that I try this, and for years I resisted.) But with the Marigo power cords mentioned above, the SS amps were so far superior there really was no point of comparison.

For another: I have found that unplugging components not in use from the preamp makes an important improvement in the sound of the system. (I am told this relates to rf as well.) I have suggested this on Audiogon, and the response has generally been mocking dismissal.

It's an interesting psychology at work in this hobby that incites us to try certain improvements that often have a large price tag, but refuse even to try others that may be very inexpensive, just because they "can't" possibly be of use.