True or False?

In my experience different pieces of gear react to different thing.. I found the better the power supply, no mater what they are suppling react LESS to high dollar power cables. If there is a huge gain in performance because of a PC change, I'd look more at the power supply other than the cable.  I wholeheartedly believe that because I've proved to myself..

An old Mcintosh MC275 doesn't know a piece of lamp cable from a Krell PC.  WHY? Look at the power supply..

Their BRAND new stuff ALL has room for either Mac or aftermarket PC.
WHY... thing are a changing even MAC has much better cabling NOW.. Sure took long enough..

I could see a Mac fuse.. I wonder what they would price one at.. Macs aftermarket cabling is pretty reasonable. 

But even I have to look at what we're getting when we buy a Mac NOW.. I'm looking for my LAST preamp/power supply C100/1000/2000 series..

I think ALL tweaks, and even cables are a back burner issue. 
Plug it all in, clean up the mess and Prepare the room FIRST.

Speaker placement in a treated room goes a long ways to ELIMINATE future tweaks (which are patches in disguise). A real tweak is something like a real good contact enhancer... It works no matter who you are or what it's used on. 5 people will hear a difference in 5 different systems..

BUT someone that's using cabling to modify the way something sounds... NO!  I want it to reveal what's there, not HIDE, CHANGE, or exaggerate it..  REVEAL, UNMASK, SHOW ME, the beef!!!!

Regards

Master M.. Now we're talking..

1. Lower the noise floor, and clean up the electrical.

2. Treat the room to match your equipment.

3. Take care of excess vibration.

MC, Master M, and most here believe in that. How many others actually do it, a lot more than we may ALL think. ALL the tweaks in the world come right after these simple principals. 

Tweak away BUT do the basics FIRST.  It saves endless hours chasing a null, suck out, combing or canceling effects... 

Tune The Room.... THEN tweak all you want..

GOOD Contact Enhancer is one of the best TWEAKS there is...

5 people out of 5 will hear the difference IF they treat the entire system..

I find like Douglas S cables in groups or sets tend to work better together.

WHY? the way they are constructed for one, but JUST maybe, pre conditioning the cables and pre applied contact enhancers make all the difference too. I mean after all an RCA and a Speaker IC WHAT do they have in common? Usually two different types of constructs, with two entirely different purposes. low in, HIGH OUT!

Maybe the low input might be sensitive to a little noise..  BUT the TWEAK is in construction of the cable and how a given manufacture assembles a product. EX: Cold Press with a contact enhancer and the cable being pulled off the spool the way it was put through the dyes...

Is it a tweak or a way of constant thinking and keeping QC the same through simple practices.. Don't cost a CENT... Just peanuts... LOL

So we are clear, some things are just for looks... nothing more nothing less.. I like eye candy, it doesn't always have to be pleasing to everyone either... I'm not into a space age studio look AT ALL... More of a Roman column guy.

I use cable lifters, WHY? It's easier to clean under and I've ALWAYS had cables off the floor. So I really couldn't tell you what they sound like on the floor other than I know when they are.. It takes a while for me messing around to finally look and see something laying on the carpet or wood floors. You can hear it especially if it is REAL dry and the wind is really blowing... Ozone and humidifiers work.. tweak category for sure..

Maybe not so much in a higher humidity climate.. Zone exclusive tweaks..

Regards