The "tragedy" of all this is , to me, that the whole idea of mains cables, fuses, spurs etc making a difference is ridiculous, ludicrous etc and one would have been laughed at for even suggesting any of these things could make a difference only a comparatively short time ago, and quite rightly! (my posts 173 and 207 should I hope convince rational people of this). We have now ended up in a situation where clever marketing, bought reviewers with advertising money to think of, slick salesmen etc have managed to convince the non technical audiophile that the ridiculous and impossible are real and worthwhile... you couldn't make it up! To go back to a medical analogy I used before, it has become so that the average patient has been "brainwashed" into thinking their illness is really caused by "the evil eye" or a demon and myself as "the doctor" is struggling to persuade otherwise rational people that it's actually high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease or whatever
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