To All Cable Deniers, 1 Very Simple Question.

Thanks @bigtwin . Glad to hear that you are having good results with a hybrid approach!

Lower impedance at the plug ensures the power supply can "draw" current with the least amount of restriction, which can theoretically reduce the ripple voltage in the DC stage of the power supply.

This statement bothered me, because I cannot see why.  ESR of capacitors would do that but not series source impedance.  If anything increasing series resistance should reduce DC voltage and slightly reduce ripple.

So I ran SPICE transient simulation with 50V 60Hz voltage source, generic diodes, 47000uF capacitor and 50 ohm load  (2s simulation, looking at last 10ms)

First I set source resistance at 0.1 ohm:
Vh=47.25V, Vl=47.05V   ripple voltage Vp-p=0.2V

Then I set source series resistance at 0.4 ohm
Vh=45.77V, Vl=45.64V   ripple voltage Vp-p=0.13V

It doesn't really matter in real world, as bigtwin stated, because this resistance is in order of miliohms vs magnitudes higher home wiring resistance while amplifiers reject this ripple, but it proves that AI comes with strange conclusions, based on some data it found on internet.  There is a lot of statements that capacitors series resistance (ESR) increases ripple (true), so looking for series resistance and rectifier it finds words "increases ripple".    I hope next time I have surgery doctors don't use AI to find where my organs are.

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@samureyex and what do you think about all this? Got anything to add?

Hello All!  Do cables make a difference? Here's an inepensive mental exercise: Would using doorbell wire (20 gauge twisted pair, solid conductots) as speaker wire result in inferior sound? Compared to what, you ask? Compared to 14 gauge zip cord from the hardware store. If your answer is NO, the speakers would sound the same with either wire, Happy listening! Don't waste you time reading the claims of "believers."

If your answer is: "The heavier wire would sound better." The you are a "believer." Good wire doesn't have to be pricey. Parts is selling wire Kimber Cable used to sell for big bucks for only $2 a foot. I highly recommend it. I've used it on Martin Logan electrostats and Magnepans, and cone low and mids and ribbon tweeter systems. Improvements every time. At 65 cents a foot, the flat 50 concuctor cable made for computer mainframes sounds quite good. Use every odd numbered conductor for + and the even numbered conductors for -.  Incidently, if you have more than one pair of cables, parallel them (if you connecters allow) and use both at the same time. You will be surprised. Happy Listening!.