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Remember I was a Manf. and dealer. So do not talk to me about pricing of cords ICs and the like. One of the highest profit margin items there is in all of audio.
Yeah this time you pissed me off. You are entitled to your opinion as well as me but your negative attitude is obvious. Yes I'm sensitive.
Indeed, you do appear quite sensitive. So much so that it pervades your posts. I take it, your 'no slouch' power cords were not a successful ongoing enterprise? Even with those profit margins? So I take it that your lack of success qualifies you as an expert that can divine relative contributions miraculously, plucked from your arse?
Interesting. My concern though with the comparison is that your mains were previously treated. Are we comparing apples to apples ? My mains have no treatment other than the CBF. Adding two more, one at the wire bundle and one at the outlet has made further improvements. I cannot say how they fare against a $1000+ cord but for $75 I'm a happy camper.
Concerned???? Don't presume to think I'm like you, so lacking in discipline, with the empirical curiosity of a turnip, that I would not avail myself of such an opportunity? Indeed, I did pull my power conditioners, but left the power cords and outlets, and tried both one and two CBFs. And IMS, my $1,600 retail dual series conditioner provided more benefit IMO, than $50 in CBFs. What a surprise! The comparison is ludicrous, a fanboy's ejaculation.
Alan has no dog in this fight. He has complementry products, more expensive, which would provide better performance than CBFs alone.
Pricing of cables and powercords is what I have an issue with. That's all. I have bought many cables at the high price. What I heard IMS is that yes most of the times overall the high priced cable edged out the lessor priced cable, however NOT to the degree in the difference in price. I have a difficult time rationalizing the cost difference. Another issue is depending on what gear one has, has a large impact on the performance of the PC as the power supply may have been designed to purify the power better than others. IMO much of what we listen to derives from the quality of the power supply. But that's me, and believe not alone with that premise. Now if a Manf. has a brick and mortar manf. site, overhead, employees, advertising and R&D YES by all means the pricing is warranted. Retail is approx.set at 5x the cost. Its a business. Then again if one is making them in the garage or kitchen then its another matter IMO. I do not believe in paying for the "design" or designers name. For me that is sweat equity just like any other business venture. The design concept is just that, a concept. Now testing, listening, that's the chance one MUST take to find out if the concept actually works.
So how did it go with folk's willingness to pay for YOUR R&D, Testing, Evaluation, overhead, labor costs, etc.....?
OK one needs [4] PCs at say $1100 each. I look at $4400 and think for that money a new CDP, DAC, PREAMP 
NOS tubes, upgraded power supplies whatever. Now if I could buy the same [4] cords for $1600 I'm in like Flynn. My business model is sell more at a lessor price than a few at high price. I would sell direct and eliminate the dealers 40% or better markup. Start a tour. Lend out to other component Manfs and try to land one to supply with their gear as standard fare [ the toughest to accomplish, wonder why]
The Pangea for the money may or not be a cord that I would keep but for the money its worth a try. If it sucks it gets returned with a MBG. So for the small return shipping amount I can have some fun trying. Isn't that what this is all about having fun.
If your idea of fun is petty, ill informed, chickenshit attacks on others business efforts, in order to assuage your damaged ego, yes.
As to your 'bidness model'.... Who is stopping you?
What exactly is keeping you from walking the walk?
If you'd actually had evaluated the Pangea, I could actually understand your fanboy posts. Otherwise, its shilling, simply one of your mastrubatory ramblings, an amalgam of treacle and
bluster puss, aided by potshots at kit you've not heard, signifying nothing other than your own 'issues'.
