Hearing is believing?........power cables.......

@williewonka. Yes I've used good quality Power Cables on tube CD Players, tube Phono stages, tube & hybrid Pre-Amps. All benefit with increased sound quality with good quality upmarket Power Cables compared to using stock (throwaway) cables.

Who's the "you" geoffkait?

"...once some very basic and inexpensive length/guage requirements are met, nothing is to be gained by spending sometimes insane amounts on aftermarket cabling"

What you call insane may I must say very respectfully maybe considered by someone else to be a very modest amount to spend on their Music Reproduction System it is a matter of assigning value to an expense and that is a very personal computation to undertake.

"...wasting money on them is ludicrous."

But those who are spending the money may not consider it ludicrous if even only because they can afford to spend such money on their  Music Reproduction System.


"A great example of this recently was when I A/B'd two CD Players from the same manufacturer, the Vincent CD-S8 & Vincent CD-S7DAC, both very fine sounding CD Players. I placed some Silver XLR's (which sounded nice on the CD-S8 but sounded "too bright" on the CD-S7DAC).If Vincent included these with all their CD Players, there would be some disappointed CD-S7DAC owners who've paid for a cable that doesn't match well." 

But if there was a difference in the audible performance of the cables when used with in the context of a  Music Reproduction System then that is all that really matters here. What you call too bright might be just right for someone else when used in they're  Music Reproduction System and worth every penny of the cost of acquiring the cables.

"And it doesn't need to cost a king's ransom. "

What you call a king's ransom may be a trivial expense to me and increasingly based upon what you write here that is very likely the case. I have one cable in my system that cost many thousands of US dollars and to me it is worth every single cent of the cost. For you it's insane probably because it would be a year's worth of rent to you but just a minor expense to someone such as myself and many others that I know of for they're  Music Reproduction System.

initforthemusic
Who's the "you" geoffkait?

It's whoever you want it to be.

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I love Music Reproduction System. It sounds so newspeak!