Doesn't anybody get burned out arguing about wires sometimes?

[Monstrous Mike]

You're stretching to find poor, ignorant, helpless victims that deperately need you to rescue them.

If you have never soured on a decision about anything, whether audio, vehicular or even females of the opposite sex, then you are indeed a blessed man. And further, if you have never needed the advice and help of others then you are either stupid or perfect.

...if I had listened to the advice that MM, mtrycrafts and other fellow "objectivists" routinely dispense I would never have achieved for myself the level of performance my system offers.

Talk about stretching! You make it sound like I am incapable of procuring an awesome sounding system and putting it in an acoustically pleasing setting. Please! I have always maintained that given identical amounts of money, I would take some from cabling and source components (i.e. in a typical audiophile budget) and transfer it to room acoustics with leftovers for upgrading speakers. Is this what you mean by objectivists' "advice".

[QUOTE=pctower]I doubt that few audiophiles (and particularly ones that usually hang out on this board) have ever heard a system that even comes close in performance to mine. QUOTE]
I don't doubt for a minute that your system doesn't sound awesome, probably a league or two above mine. But if you can quantify that some of that performance is due to the quality of your cabling, then you are a better scientist and engineer than I am.

Had they, I personally can't imagine how they could be so cock-sure of themselves.

I don't think I'm the one who is cock-sure.