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RE: power cables wires et al.

I can't explain how changing the last six feet of power wire can make a difference, but years ago I made up Chris Venhaus' power cords, mostly because it was a simple, fun, and fairly cheap project so... why not. I never did any A/B testing to see if I could tell the difference. (It may be that just controlling where the cable shields go to ground made most of the difference.) So consider me something of an almost-agnostic.

Then I met Steve Berkowitz by assisting with his projects with Steve Addabbo - Staples Singers Freedom Highway, Bob Dylan vol 10, etc. Neither Steve is an audiophile, though Addabbo started buying Mogami cable for his latest mic cables. He is an almost-agnostic as well. (No one we know can tell the difference between the Mogami and the older mic cables btw.)

Fast forward. Berkowitz' Beatles Mono LP set came out last year and it's terrific. There is the usual beautifully printed hardcover book about the project. In that book, Berkowitz writes that he and Sean Magee tried different power cables for the tape deck they were using, and found they made a difference.

So I'm more of a believer than before. I certainly believe the dialectric on speaker wires makes a big difference - I love the anticables. I also think that OFC copper and silver wire each has a pretty distinctive effect on sound for interconnects and speaker wires. Bi-wiring if done right (keep the pairs physically separated) can be a very dramatic improvement, and if done wrong (pairs close together) is worthless. I also think Richard Vandersteen probably came up with the reason why it works that way. Probably... or maybe not.

Maybe some day I'll buy those audiophile fuses and find a Tice Clock. Not yet, but maybe some day.

Deni Bonet said it best in her happy/bouncy breakup song, "It's All Good."
It's all good.
It's all fine.
It's ridiculous.
It's sublime.

WW
"Put on your high heeled sneakers. Baby, we''re goin'' out tonight.

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