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Don't overlook the power cable too (these guys have great ones http://www.dedicatedaudio.com/... ) - thought this is not a performance thing, but will greatly improve the audio.

Now, I just need to find some wooden knobs to fix that hideous 'colouring' of the sound coming from these damn plastic ones.

This is getting dangerously close to the super high end crap they sell audiophiles.

No, not even slightly close. Yes, that's a POWER cable.

$300 power cord containing $15 worth of parts:
http://gizmodo.com/371536/300-audiophile-grade-power-cable-is-really-worth-15

$1000 power cord on sale for a mere $750:
http://www.essentialsound.com/essence-power-cord/index.htm

$2000 power cord:
http://www.dedicatedaudio.com/inc/sdetail/125/24045

$695 cable for digital signals... that's right, a $700 S/PDIF cord:
http://www.lessloss.com/digital-cables-c-70.html?zenid=l5tu6jq73toh5mk09a315pkid0

Machina Dynamica. Oh man. I really wonder if the guy running this site even believes in his own products, or if he is gleefully exploiting the gullible. Products include "The Clever Little Clock" which seems to be an ordinary travel alarm clock with magical powers, "The Super Intelligent Chip" which not only improves the sound of your CDs, but does so permanently (by altering the structure of the CD in some hand-waving "quantum" fashion), his new product, "The Quantum Temple Bell", a decorated bell you walk around your house ringing and your audio sounds better, and my favorite "The Teleportation Tweak" where he calls you and plays magical tones through your phone, and your audio sounds better afterward.
http://www.machinadynamica.com/

steveha

Don't forget your $60 anti-vibration ebony outlet cover, or that $150 power outlet won't do you any good.

For an audiofool, that's over thinking things. You're supposed to just plug your $7000 power cable into your $150 power outlet, and the job is done.

From the sales-spiel for this $898 2m power cable... http://www.dedicatedaudio.com/inc/sdetail/2409

From TFA:
> They create a huge soundstage that is focused, detailed and very natural. The sound of the Silent Source cables far exceeds their moderate price. They easily beat cables costing 10 to 20 times more.


So, their 'moderately priced' ($449/m) power cable is as good as others costing 20 times as much???

If this is to believed, there are people out there charging $18,000 for a 2 metre cable to connect your hi-fi to the wall-plug. Please, please, someone tell me it isn't so.

Check out http://www.dedicatedaudio.com/interconnect_cable
The have several cables that make $499 look cheap.

What would happen if a judge asked the same from a HD cable vendor?

Audience Au24 High Resolution Loudspeaker Cable: 741$

...every minute.