Ah but you would not want to would you Michael

The power of suggestion works both ways guys, and if you want to suggest that some of us are imagining the affects of cabling and other tweaks, then you too must accept that you just might have conditioned your mind to blank out any differences you might detect (just as a fire walker might not notice the hot coals). There's been an unusually high incidence of cynicism on this forum of late and it would be a fool who denies that there is a possibility that some of it has subconciously rubbed off.

Even I'm using a system with no mains treatments and connected with patchchords supplied by a local music shop. And thoroughly enjoying the results