I realised my last post about cables wasn't as clear as it could have been. Sure, balanced or unbalanced matters, and proper twisted pairs matter for balanced common-mode noise rejection, and quantity of copper (ie. resistance) matters, and flexibility matters, and shielding matters, and even braiding matters for robustness. But all those prats talking about cables sounding "dark" or "sweet" or "trebly" - it is, as they say, to laugh...

And that's why I'd rather talk to you guys who I know actually *use* the stuff for real, instead of just collecting it as a kind of twisted hobby.

Graham.

PS. I remember reading a pisstake design for a "perfect" listening environment once. It included a vacuum pump to suck the air out (replaced by nitrogen or something) and space suits for the listeners, because if oxygen-free copper is so much better, obviously we need to keep it oxygen-free. ;-)