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A well thought out system is good, and probably what I would have done...

Posted by Paul_A on April 3, 2011 at 14:02:28:
...if I knew then what I know now, because I've really spent more than I can afford on this beast, but that's water over the dam. I have a highly resolving system which reveals a great deal about the character of my cabling, my power, its interaction with the room, and many other things. If my speakers hadn't been so resolving, I doubt that I would have sunk all of the money that I did into the electronics, cabling, and everything else. But I could hear so much distortion through them that I improved the rest of the system to make the speakers even listenable. After putting together a system that registers very small changes and makes them painfully obvious, I discovered Acoustic Revive QR8 quartz resonators. Boy what a difference they made. After placing eight of them in strategic positions, my soundstage probably doubled in size. After a year of fooling around with other crystals, the quality of sound I was getting was unbelievable--a huge improvement from what it had been before.
Then I tried some crystals on my second system. It's a nice sounding rig that plays music pleasantly--a little attenuated in the upper frequencies and not terribly precise, but all in all a good system. I heard absolutely no differences with power cords, interconnects or crystals. Well maybe some slight changes, but too subtle to be sure of. The speaker cables in my main system cost $1800 and they really made a big difference, but they would have been a waste of money in system #2.