I hear what you are saying. I was very sceptical at the time too.
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I know what you mean Paul. Until my enthousiastic high-end shop owner demonstrated that even the type of connects he used to link speakers to the speaker wire make a difference (he replaced the banana plugs with spades). I know that electrically this hardly makes sense, but hearing is believing: the little things like a proper audio rack, placement of components, the inter-connects used, all make a noticeable even when die hard engineers claim that there can't be any difference because they can't measure it (yet ??). Until they try for themselves, and listen, they will remain as sceptical as you (and I) were.

Henno
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