This is my bread and butter. I am a cables and clean power first audiophile. I’m not even going to bother reading any replies from non cable believers. There wouldn’t be as many cable manufacturers as their are, with as many sales as there are, if the only people that were buying them were people that are lying to themselves and don’t mind just simply wasting money on cables. The simple fact is that cables in a high current system are bad. The closer to line level and low voltage the less the signal is degraded. But that doesn’t mean the dac and streamer side of cabling aren’t important. Everyone looks at normal cables as “they work”. They don’t. You’re just so use to it. But go listen to g a good car system or Bluetooth earbuds and you will hear purity and ambience much better than your high end system. Because they are powered via battery (clean power) and are low voltage rsther than high current. I chased the root cause of this for years. I found cables that I believe to be the closest thing to no cables. But I’ll save that seemingly advertisement name drop for the day I drop my YouTube reviews.
Aside from cables, you owe it to yourself to get a good power conditioner. The puritan 156 tool over the market a few years ago and is still going strong. Yes the upgraded cable you can bundle with it is worth the upcharge. There is an associated device called the ground master or the city master. The ground master allows you to link all your devices ground together and then exit to a grounding rod you will install in your yard which goes 8feet deep
why you need clean power and grounding. The power in your house is dirty I guess. I watched a video on how electricity works and still unsure how magnetic waves moving electrons can be “dirty” but it is. Devices around your house send back disruptive signal. The effect the puritan gives you is that your music is cleaner. The ground master affect might be even greater. The reason being is that all your devices use 0 as a starting point. It is the baseline. It uses the ground as the reference so ground should be zero. But in your house it isn’t. Shown in a graph it looks like distortion all over the place. So basically it’s like your devices are getting ADHD instructions on where to go and what to do. The ground master makes your ground zero and you will for the first time hear that your devices are simply working a billion times better. Like you gave your adhd equipment ADEROL.
the city master is similar device for the ground but is for people that can’t run a separate grounding rod outside their house. They plug the city master into a separate outlet in their house. It is not as effective as the ground master though

