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10% recommendation is obsolete.

The 10% recommendation was formulated at a time when audio cables were considered an "audio accessory" rather than the status of cables as vital component upgrades. Unless a particular audio device is so mediocre that tossing high-performance cables at it is like throwing pearls to swine, or polishing a turd, it's rare to find a high-performance cable that's too expensive to provide remarkable benefit for high-performance audiophile applications. That said, buy what you can afford based on obvious audiophile betterment, and a willingness to invest in audio system upgrades as a whole. It's also a wonderful thing to have several high-performance choices in a cable collection to experiment with when new gear is introduced into a system in order to provide better synergy within a particular system, and if personal audiophile satisfaction is not discovered by a listener, in what sonic signature direction to turn towards via cabling for better audio satisfaction. It's all about custom system tuning efforts rather than a plug-and-play mentality.


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