Which Cable Makes the Biggest Impact?

Hey, Psychic!! But if you really were you would have known that I never left. :)

I don't know why so many people think that there is bad electricity in some areas. It's all AC and it's ALL dirty and noisy. It's the nature of the AC beast. Yes, it may be a tad worse in some areas but it's BAD everywhere.

Sorry Pawlowski, I don't mean to single you out because it seems the vast majority think the same way.

Since my line conditioners have built-in power cables I cannot respond with the exact same experience as the others.

Between ics and scs, the ics make far more impact in my experience.

But the big question is, which run of ics make the biggest impact? Between the source and pre or the pre and amp?

Again, in my experience the run between the source and pre is far more significant than the ics running between the pre and amp. I know a few others who have had the same experience.

-IMO

Knownothing said, “your system as a whole is only as good as its weakest point.”

IMO, the only way that theory could hold water is if every element of a given system performed the same functions, addressed the same shortcomings, and provided the same benefit characteristics when rectified. In other words if all of a system’s components were playing in the same silo then perhaps.

But they don’t. Rather, each component has its own part of the vineyard with very little overlap into other parts of the vineyard. Perhaps it is better to look at a system like a human body. Every part of the human body is created to perform certain functions. Obviously when a certain body part fails or breaks away there can be some limited support and compensation from other parts but there are most always serious limitations inherent with the substitute. For example, a blind person using his fingertips to read Braille will never get his fingertips to see the color red.

-IMO