"max graff" wrote in message
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Hi guys,

I was recently auditioning the Rotel 1071 pre-power combo on some
lovely $12,000 Sonus Faber speakers.

So far so good.

They were fitted with some $200 IXOS interconnects.

Which were either as sonically accurate as $5 commodity interconnects, or
not.

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).

Rule number one is that you rarely if ever get reference quality bass off of
vinyl. If there's 5 minutes of music per 12" side, maybe just maybe.

I replaced them with some $70 Tara Labs cables and all seems to sound
crystal clear and neutral.

It was now 5 or more minutes later and a second listening. Being 5 minutes
later, there's no hope that you could reliably discern a subtle difference.
Being a second listening without the ability to go back and forth between
the two difererent hardware configurations, you violated the order rule.

Bad experiments are bad guides.

Even the sales guy acknowledged that.

You're going to cite a sales drone as an independent authority? You must be
a real hoot at used car lots! If the turnip truck circles back in time, you
can catch it back home before you really hurt yourself...

The equipment does not have hidden gizmos to enhance the bass and I
wired them with my own good hands.

You found a sorce of Rotel build-it-yourself kits? Do tell!

So there was no foulplay or snakeoil involved.

Competency in the experimental setup and procedure was also carefully
avoided.

Explain this - what's a mere cable got to do with adding extra bass?

If both cables were as sonically transparent as a $5 interconnect, which is
to say perfectly sonically transparent, then the cable had nothing to do
with adding extra bass.

As far as I know a cable is a cable with no processing happening
within it.

That's not true in every case.