Lon, kind of a newby question, but you mentioned rolling through power cables on your DAC over a period of months because, being a Source, that is a very revealing point in your set up.
I understand that many things have to occur before actual break-in can help to settle the kinds of stress applied to metals through soldering, tinning and even crimping and possibly plugging and unplugging of cabling but, as you roll through a few cables, how long do you give each change before you can decide if the change was beneficial or if you're going to roll it again?
Noticing an immediate difference must give one a kind of rush of audio goosebumps as you seem to have decribed with your new purchase. Do you go back and forth between changes in a short time or do you "live with" your new cable for a while before going back to the older cable to confirm your first impressions?
Often when I have changed something that made a dramatic difference there was later something I noticed that I had given up in another area.
I understand that the best, cleanest power is essential as a start, otherwise how do you find that "first watt," right?
What is the process? How long do you break in a new power cable? How long does it take to conclude that something new is truly an improvement without compromises in other characteristics of your "almost there" system?
Sorry for the raging typos, but I'm still trying to type one handed.