Monstrous power cables

They can act like a “device” instead of a simple cheap 14-10g cord.

Super heavy gauge will certainly increase capacitance. You can also increase or reduce resistance. What’s the big issue here?
you can change these things inside the case (amp/preamp whatever component) as well.

I suppose it’s when to start calling them devices instead of cords??

Just wear a tin foil hat and all the cables sound the same................

Thanks for all your thoughts and external reading links.  I do appreciate all of you.

I’ve not read them all but the idea that our components aren’t at the end of the electrical chain was interesting.  I’ve never looked at it in that way.

I’ve always had a dislike for unyielding cables, be they ICs or PCs.  Or even speaker cables, for that matter.  I think this probably comes from having limited space behind the equipment rack where stiff, large cables were a chore or couldn’t be used.

I’ve also had lightweight components being tilted up in the front from the pull of the audiophile-approved power cables pulling down on them and also the small monitors connected to behemoth cables and wondering when they’d get pulled off the stands by the cables.

I’m sure you’ve all experienced this, as well.

In one of the articles where the proprietor claims a single PC can take your system from “good to amazing” I call BS on.  I’m of the camp that cables can and do make a difference but that those differences are always subtle, at best.  So subtle, as a matter of fact (or opinion in my case), that if one used unfamiliar recordings to A/B the differences in PCs their choosing correctly would be akin to flipping a coin.  And with a “good to amazing” difference each of us should be able to pick correctly 100% of the time using music we’ve never heard before.

No I use archaic devices that necessitate the use of massive transformers…

Heavy!