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Disagree ...

But that's only what my own experience tells me, and that includes experience with cables, in particular ICs. However I get the distinct impression my experience is in concert with those of a great many audiophiles (not to mention reviewers).

BTW, in case there's any possible doubt, my opinions are my own and I'm no Stereophile groopie. I used and enjoyed a ARC SP9II for almost a decade and as far as I know it might be the only ARC component that could be said to have received a good spanking by Stereophile. It replaced an Acdom 565 which, roughly at the same time, was a budget component that they cooed over (and placed very high in the 'list'). Verdict: SP9II beat the pants of the 565 in the 'realism' department, especially for phono.

Eventually they tried to back down (in a "Follow-up") by claiming a certain tube brought the SP9II to respectibility but that was pure BS. I moved to those tubes myself and found only a minor improvement, not changing the essential sound in any significant way.

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p.s. Suggest column "As We See It" be renamed to "As I See It". That subtle change alone would have many of you unexperienced (in the empirical sense) views considerably less alarming.


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