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Merlin - that's just utter BS I'm afraid. My conversion to objectivist is completely unrelated to the opinions of anyone on the forum

Why would I let wolfgan and dat19 (neither of whom I know the slightest thing about) influence my opinion more than, for example, your good self or wadia-miester, both of whom I've met more than once and think of as thouroughly good blokes?

My "road to Damascus" moment actually came after trying out a Trichord 500VA power conditioner in my system where it did absolutely nothing, and I wasn't the only person to think so. I realised I'd bought a lot of things "blind" on the advice of others and that I really hadn't noticed any difference. The Olson mains blocks and the Isolda speaker cable being prime examples.

Spot on. I couldn't have put it better myself.

Yesterday at lowrider's place we compared his Apogee Wyde-Eye XLR cables with my VDH D102III XLR cables (from pre to power). I swear to you that I heard not one iota of a difference. Lowrider OTOH was quite convinced his Apogee's were better . It's not even a price issue, my VDH's are actually slightly more expensive than his Apogees.

Michael.

<blockquote data-quote="michaelab" data-source="post: 533148" data-attributes="member: 1011">Merlin - that's just utter BS I'm afraid.&nbsp; My conversion to objectivist is completely unrelated to the opinions of anyone on the forum <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Why would I let wolfgan and dat19 (neither of whom I know the slightest thing about) influence my opinion more than, for example, your good self or wadia-miester, both of whom I've met more than once and think of as thouroughly good blokes? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My &quot;road to Damascus&quot; moment actually came after trying out a Trichord 500VA power conditioner in my system where it did absolutely nothing, and I wasn't the only person to think so.&nbsp; I realised I'd bought a lot of things &quot;blind&quot; on the advice of others and that I really hadn't noticed any difference.&nbsp; The Olson mains blocks and the Isolda speaker cable being prime examples.Spot on.&nbsp; I couldn't have put it better myself.Yesterday at lowrider's place we compared his Apogee Wyde-Eye XLR cables with my VDH D102III XLR cables (from pre to power).&nbsp; I swear to you that I heard not one iota of a difference.&nbsp; Lowrider OTOH was quite convinced his Apogee's were better <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> .&nbsp; It's not even a price issue, my VDH's are actually slightly more expensive than his Apogees.Michael.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="michaelab, post: 533148, member: 1011"] Merlin - that's just utter BS I'm afraid. My conversion to objectivist is completely unrelated to the opinions of anyone on the forum :rolleyes: Why would I let wolfgan and dat19 (neither of whom I know the slightest thing about) influence my opinion more than, for example, your good self or wadia-miester, both of whom I've met more than once and think of as thouroughly good blokes? :) My "road to Damascus" moment actually came after trying out a Trichord 500VA power conditioner in my system where it did absolutely nothing, and I wasn't the only person to think so. I realised I'd bought a lot of things "blind" on the advice of others and that I really hadn't noticed any difference. The Olson mains blocks and the Isolda speaker cable being prime examples. Spot on. I couldn't have put it better myself. Yesterday at lowrider's place we compared his Apogee Wyde-Eye XLR cables with my VDH D102III XLR cables (from pre to power). I swear to you that I heard not one iota of a difference. Lowrider OTOH was quite convinced his Apogee's were better ;) . It's not even a price issue, my VDH's are actually slightly more expensive than his Apogees. Michael. [/QUOTE]

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