I can sell you a special pencil to draw that line, only £5000 each, but you will need the special solid gold pencil sharpener to keep it in tip top sharpness for £3000
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What, no AC filters and regenerators?! Cheapskate!!!
You can claim that you can hear 40KHz signal at -200dB, too. On a free forum you will be called out about that. Although it is slightly more believable than hearing difference between digital cables.
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The price of your system is nothing compared to your wonderful hearing habilities LoL
Gotta use organically-raised, free-range shellac beetles to get an optimum disc.
No one has an issue with you wishing to blow a metric tonne of cash on your system.
The issue many of us have is the audiophile press’ lies
“Buy this multi-thousand (insert currency unit of choice) cable and it will elevate your system to hitherto unknown levels…”
Novices to our hobby may well just do that when they would be far better investing that level of coin in room treatments, DSP, better speakers etc. which yield immense and measurable improvements.
I’ve yet to see an independent test which supports measured audible changes from cables in the digital domain.
You claim to hear differences in digital cables.
My challenge: Prove it.
Make recordings with a high end cable and an Amazon Basics cable. Invert one of the recordings and sum it with the other (null test). If there’s a difference, I’ll eat my hat.
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Unlike religion, where many things are simply not provable, in the world of audio, as is clearly pointed out in the above quote, things are very provable. Science doesn’t need to be believed to be true, it just is true.
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The ■■ 1363 plug is a marvel of over-engineering. 25.6 mm² line and neutral pins and a 32 mm² earth pin. Both have a greater CSA than the mains cables feeding most consumer units (25 mm²) and the earth pin has a CSA twice that of the main CPC (16 mm²). Built-in appliance-specific rated fuse leaves every other electrical system the world over in the dust.
It’s only drawback is that an unplugged appliance presents a serious danger to the unshod foot. The pins almost invariably point upwards when unplugged!
You’re overlooking the “magical” properties of that last metre of audiophile power cable which fixes everything that’s wrong between the power station and your mains socket… Not forgetting the “directional” copper, “audiophile” mains fuses and that, according to the “golden-eared” among us, all of this is audible! 
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It’s also something completely different than digital cables for 5K
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Yeah, but just look at how skinny those pins are! 
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Which is funny, since they need to carry twice the current for the same power compared to Europe.
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Well, there’s a business idea. We should start selling UK-style replacement sockets and power cables to American audiophiles. Could even advertise that they will bring “Great British sound” to any piece of equipment!
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Brilliant Comparison!!
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To get really clean power, you need to generate it yourself, so that you can control the purity. I recommend an audiophile generator. running on specially hand-distilled fuel drawn from an acoustically neutral pool of petroleum, and supplied monthly by subscription. The subscription price includes the cost of appropriate carbon offsets, sourced from the Netherlands.
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Oh boy, now you have done it. The same 4-5 individuals who always show up to tell us what is BS and what is not, are going to hound you until you admit the error of your ways. LOL!
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Made from very organic mushrooms?
“You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts” (c)
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The room probably had more impact vs. the gear.
The error is very clearly in comparing stuff like amps, speakers and room to digital cables. That’s a straw man argument as nobody doubts the impacts of the former
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To be honest, I’m not sure what carbon offsets are made from. 