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Which Cable Makes the Biggest Impact?

To all the audiophiles that have tried different power cables, interconnects, and speaker cables, which do you believe makes the biggest impact in your system in order of ranking? If you don't believe that cables/interconnects/pc's make any difference at all, and is all marketing hype and snake oil, you can vote accordingly, but my ONLY request is that you've tried different cables first!

Ok..My ranking:
1. Power cables - most important
2. Interconnects
3. Speaker cable
calgarian5355
leica_man
153 posts
 
Sherod,
Excellent points all. Placing greater importiance on one cable while discounting the importance of a different cable "in the signal path," is much like placing greater importance on a specific link in a chain at the expense of another when all bear the same load.

LM
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
"There's a sucker born every minute" is falsely attributed to PT Barnum.

In actuality it was probably David Hannum or Joseph Bessimer, both contemporaries of Barnum. The record is unclear but friends of Barnum claim he did not view his customers as suckers.
calgarian5355 OP
131 posts
 

I thought I would update this original post and add in the digital cable:

1.  Power Cords (in order of importance: Source, preamp, then amp)

2. Interconnects

3. Digital cables (almost a tie with interconnects)

4.  Speaker cables.....

 

deep_333
866 posts
 

Biggest impact: Speaker Cables

Mas o menos: Interconnects

Minimal: Power cables - Diminishing returns maxed at a 100 dollars if you have a decent filter or conditioning solution.

big_greg
6,562 posts
 

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