Quote Originally Posted by Mash
Ain't nobody's purchases subsidizing anyone else's purchases, okiemax. Each retail transaction is an independent event. All merchandise must individually offer a business justification (profit or traffic-buiilding) in its own right or a merchant will stop offering it. Individual ROI rules.

I doubt that anyone here has ANY objection to YOUR spending YOUR $1000 on a pair of 3 metre interconnects. It's your money, so enjoy. I think the objection arises here when neophytes, who are asking for experience-based advice, are urged to spend substantial money on wires when no objective test (i.e. DBT, for example) has EVER demonstrated the proof-of-benefit for expensive wires.

The only time I have EVER heard differences among SUBSTANTIALLY different amps that were played within their power limitations was with Magnepan speakers. These same quite-different amps sounded all the same when played through either cones-in-a-box speakers or electrostatic speakers. So how really different CAN mere wires sound?
Very good points. However, it is quite likely that the Magnepan speakers offered a much more difficult load than the other speakers, and so the differences may well have been that one or more of the amplifiers couldn't handle the load.