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Markus, I am a big proponent (and frequent violator) of the "One Change at a Time" rule.  In this case the "scientific" part of the idea is simply to track audible changes in a particular run of IC, since they/it are/is plainly discernable to me, as such.

But how do you determine the electrical similarities and/or differences of your cable in situ?  For instance, how do you, practically speaking, isolate and measure working inductance of phono IC?  While I'm sure that something "electrical" factors largely into what I hear, I have yet to be able to pre-determine how wire will sound from any truly meaningful measureable electrical parameters, whether similarities or differences.  At this point, such quantification is for me just other way of keeping track of stuff rather than a fool-proof method of pre-determining and/or reliably shaping the sound by "design".  Further, and annoyingly enough, I find the damned stuff changes over time, and not just with respect to "breaking in", but simply +/- long term sonic changes.  I suspect this owes primarily to oxidation; but, in any case, any attempt to forestall it also introduces additional sonic variables.

The fact that all the components also use wire has not so much escaped me as it simply puts me off, due to the mind-boggling complexity of the "logical extrapolations" of this sort of thinking.  Basically, I'm just not up to it...

At this point, I already have a good general (and specific) sense of what I have and what I am after/will accept.  This is not a change in strategy, nor in tactics, really, so much as it is just another attempt to push what I have a little farther.


Best regards,
Paul S

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