Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd.

You could probably get good results by minimizing unnecessary cabling and shortening signal paths a lot.

Get a competent streamer+ddc+dac+linestage combo unit from a manufacturer who knows what he is doing. Run it to some proficiently designed powered speakers (Elac Navis, Meyer, Meridian, whatever). All you would need is a pair of interconnects and a power cable, I suppose.

A power cable only needs to have good shielding so it doesn’t turn into an antenna/let any noise leech back in after your power got conditioned by a power conditioner. A power cable does not need to cost 10k, it can be 100 bucks off aliexpress.

Excessive separates bibilly boobilly (i,e., 15 different boxes and cables strung all around to play a damn song) can/will often fail in execution.

Good luck.

do not think the person who spends $14K on a PC is plugging it into a Yamaha C5000, just an observation. Maybe the Ture Life Audio TSI-300 @$50K plus, that is more than my first Trailer Home cost. 

I can spend 14k on power wire if you convinced me (I may have the funds). Look at the picture again and convince me why the nortoast power wire + 2 plugs priced at 14k cost more than the other 3 items on that picture. What was so sophisticated about it? Tell me.

what is expensive for one is just pocket change for others.

Rich dudes are not stupid and tend to understand a thing or two about economics better than the avg hifi nerd.

Try selling Warren Buffett wire for 10k (because because...got to keep the lights on, R&D, yada yada, boo hoo, same old hifi cable sales guy sob story). Tell him "you are rich, so, why not buy it?" He might just gently waltz you out of his house.

Always try not to insult some rich dude’s intelligence with such statements. "You are rich, so why not?"....that’s gotta be about as insulting as it gets.

"IF YOU RICH, WHY NOT BUY IT?", said the sales guy.... "Wire R&D is rather expensive and the price is justified", he said.

@deep_333 I would not buy any of the items. I do not see the value in any of these items. I do think that the people spending $14K on a PC are few and far between and those that are they’re plugging it into a much better amplifier than the two you have pictured. Heck the Honda is overpriced too.

I see your point and I would never spend more than $400.00 on a power cord for my Bose Wave Radio.

Better amplifer... worse amplifier (facepalm)...I suspect you are still not getting it. I picked 3 items of much more complexity (engineering cost, fabs costs, etc whatever) that are priced less the 14k power wire + 2 plugs. I asked you what made that wire + plugs so sophisticated that it cost more than those other 3 items.

If my net worth was 500+ million and I decided to go with a million dollar rig one day, i still wouldn’t get a power wire + 2 plugs for 14k. It may still be 200 dollars off of aliexpress for me, i.e., that’s the price of a wire + 2 plugs for me. If i had 500 million dollars and decided to buy toilet power, it would still be 5 bucks. That’s the price of toilet paper for me. I wouldn’t pay a 1000 bucks for a roll of toilet paper ( BECAUSE I WAS RICH, WHY NOT?!?!). Does that make sense?

You see...the minute a guy gives that sales guy 14k for a piece of wire + 2 plugs or 1000 bucks for toilet paper, the sales guy is laughing at him.... he is laughing at the bonafide imbecile that bought the 14k power wire or 1000 dollar toilet paper from him.

"IF YOU ARE RICH, WHY NOT?".....mmhmm, I suppose the sales guy will need to find a fool for that line to work.