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I'm having a really hard time with: "Power cable reduced my soundstage"...
Dont throw me stones,but i used stones for that with great impact on all count! Try some... 
Bi-wiring?
My bi-wiring with used good cable was a success... With a costly cables it is not worth the subtle upgrading effect... But with good used cable at low cost it is very interesting little upgrade... 
Moderately priced audio
Old and used Mission Cyrus speakers 781 (50 bucks) in nearfield listening, New Starting point systems NOS dac (50 bucks on ebay bid), Old and used Akg 701 (100 bucks) Vintage AKG 340 (120 bucks), Vintage Sansui AU-7700 (120 bucks +upgrading compon... 
Moderately priced audio
In one word the quality of sound is less related to the price paid for a system than to the method used to lower the noise floor...Best kept audio secret...And indeed I enjoy my music so much that I dont think to buy anything …. 
Moderately priced audio
My system is also made of  vintage top of the line headphones and amplifier, and very good speakers, and a contemporary very good dac; my experience is there is more upgrading effect to gain in cleaning the audio grid and the electrical grid of th... 
Cable insulation, graphene, electron flow... how does it work?
«There is no theory behind the phenomena,the phenomena are the theory» I guess Goethe was for some an idiot....Another translation : «One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.» 
Cable insulation, graphene, electron flow... how does it work?
Thanks Geoff...But I prefer classic and jazz... (smiling) 
Cable insulation, graphene, electron flow... how does it work?
If we speak about audio, and teo__audio spoke about audio, the listening experience is not reducible to an "objective fact" like a fact is a fact for a scientific falsifiable theory; then measurement in the sense of the total reduction of this sub... 
Cable insulation, graphene, electron flow... how does it work?
I concur with Elisabeth and congratulate teo_audio... 
The music’s the thing but....
The fact is most people dont know what is a minimally natural or minimally musical sound, they are perpetually unsatisfied...The hyped of marketing is their guide...When you have a minimally musical audio system, you forget the sound most of the t... 
The music’s the thing but....
Interesting Thread!  I agree with you ,all of you, and if I add my grain of salt, I had dreamed a hi-fi dream, infectious one contracted with an older  mentor friend when I was 20 years old... I am 67 years old and like already said someone here, ... 
Near-field speaker placement
go there read that and download the calculator :https://www.head-fi.org/threads/domo-audio-brings-you-that-sweet-spot-—-get-better-imaging-through-s... 
The Six Moons.com review on the Mhdt Labs Orchid DAC just went up
Oops! I had the french nos dac of Starting point systems (bid on ebay for peanuts) his sound is 3 d imaging with a naturalness of timbre unheard of by all my other dac...It is so good that any upgrade will be foolishness...This is my own review ..... 
Machina Dynamica New Dark Matter CD and Blu Ray tray treatment?
GeoffKait you are right for the cd untreated.... I dont doubt that....This is the reason that I am interested in this thread.... I will install in the year to come a cd player for sure … I will try your NDM then....But for lowering the noise level... 
Machina Dynamica New Dark Matter CD and Blu Ray tray treatment?
All this thread is interesting... I cannot try the NDM,because I dont use now a cd player... I had transfer all my cd in flac files et listen only to flac files...I keep the noise of the computer to reasonable level and the results are at my satis...