> it does make a difference if $100k has already been spent on the gear. That sounds like a sunk cost fallacy, why does it matter how much was spent? It should

> it does make a difference if $100k has already been spent on the gear. That sounds like a sunk cost fallacy, why does it matter how much was spent? It should be the other way around where "clean power" makes a noticeable difference with cheap playback equipment with flimsy filtering capacitors in their power supplies. So-called "audiophile" equipment of boat-anchor weight should not need "clean power", that should be handled by the power supply. The whole "audiophile" scene is rife with mass-delusion, they fall for the same scams as those who e.g. buy "amulets for protection against evil spirits". Neither of these do anything but both may feel better by having them. The "audiophile" may get the same satisfaction from listening to whatever he plays as whatever random person does listening to his or her music using whatever equipment they have at hand. The difference is that the random person did not have to pay a scammer to achieve satisfaction. The same was true for the "audiophile" before he fell into the trap but now he's lost that ability.