Are there any absolute truths???

There are a few absolute truths:
1. Keep your connections clean for good sound.
2. Get the grounding of your components right for good sound.
3. Get the right polarity in your equipment for good sound
4. Check for room reflections for good sound.
5. Experiment for speaker placement for good sound.
6. Try to decouple your components for good sound.
7. Keep powercables away from interconnects and speakercables.
8. Keep speaker cables and interconnects apart.
9. If they must cross, see to it, that they cross at right anglesnever run them in paralells.
10. output impedance of preamp and input impedance of poweramp should correspond. (ask the geat Sean for the right values)
11. Listen in the dark for better sound.
12. Don't listen alone, but with a significant other for better sound.
13. Have a good glass of red for better sound.

You're going to die. So am I. There's a truth for ya..

1. No stereo system will sound as good as a live performance.

2. If you like it, who cares what everyone thinks?

The following is the truth as I know it: Imaging and Soundstage width and depth is due to two things ---- speakers (and the room interface) and the recording!

Anyone who tells you amps and cables can improve the above is a fool with more money than sense, or an audio reviewer who claims to hear improvements because he must in order to keep getting all those nice (expensive?) toys to play with.

I've got thick skin and good ears, so slam away.

Jim

Yes, there are.The problem is most people can not regonize them when they hear them.

Chuck