On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:54:38 -0700, max graff
wrote:

I was recently auditioning the Rotel 1071 pre-power combo on some
lovely $12,000 Sonus Faber speakers. They were fitted with some $200
IXOS interconnects. I played a couple of vinyl records (Miles Davis -
So what, Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon) the bass was overwhelming
and a bit boomy at times (at least more that what I am used to).

I replaced them with some $70 Tara Labs cables and all seems to sound
crystal clear and neutral. Even the sales guy acknowledged that.

The equipment does not have hidden gizmos to enhance the bass and I
wired them with my own good hands. So there was no foulplay or
snakeoil involved.

Explain this - what's a mere cable got to do with adding extra bass?
As far as I know a cable is a cable with no processing happening
within it.

I suppose an over-complicated cable MIGHT be badly-designed enough to
do some passive filtering. More likely they sounded exactly the same,
but you were listening hard for a difference so found one.

I think we can discount the salesman's opinion. That's one step worse
than "...and even my wife noticed the difference!" :-)