Thanks for that link...I just placed my order for two of them at that price...with free shipping no less.

APC must have really misjudged their production for the silver ones since those are at that really low price while the black ones are hundreds more. Everything I have read about them is really positive and they seem to be a real quality product . I'm replacing 15 year old Adcom ACE 515 ac line enhancers which don't have anywhere near the ability that the APC units have.

With what we pay for our audio components, this is cheap insurance. Plus...they look pretty spiffy and I can always use more blue led's and LCD readouts in my systems.

I just hooked up my 7500 in place of the 7125 so the 7125 can go home for some Outlaw TLC on the SL channel. My question is on the 7500s trigger delay. When the 990 comes on with the 7125 there is about a 3-5 second delay before the amp turns on. The same startup with the 7500 has about a 15 second delay. I am using the same trigger cord for both situations. Is this normal because the 7500 has two transformers vice one in the 7125 or should I swap to the trigger cord which came with the 7500?

I don't use the trigger directly to my amp, so I can't say for certain, but the trigger cable shouldn't matter.

strindl,
I know a lot of people love Blue Jeans Cable http://www.bluejeanscable.com/ and Signal Cable http://signalcable.com/ around here. I own both. Signal makes reference-quality cabling at mere-mortal prices. Blue Jeans Cable makes audiophile-grade cabling at or below what you'll pay for shiny, mediocre Monster cable.

Signal is really small-time, and kinda slow. They don't have a fancy shopping cart site or anything, but they make terrific cables. Blue Jeans take a practical approach to cabling. Mine arrived a little grubby (on the outside), and in a plain plastic bag, but perform wonderfully.

I don't have any of Signal's stuff, but I've had consistently excellent results with Blue Jeans.

I've used the cables from the cheapo radio shack stuff to ultra pricey. I think the sweet spot is somewhere in between. I once paid 350 bucks for a 3 foot length of Kimber Cable kcag coaxial digital interconnect and about the same for their KCAG balanced XLR interconnects. I would never spend that much on cables again...although those work well.

I have found the Belkin cables that you can buy at Sams Club to be of very high quality and not expensive at all. The Acoustic Reseach cables that used to be sold at Best Buy are also very good and cheap.

To help hook up my new digital gear, I bought a pair of 50 foot HDMI cables for 30 bucks a piece from a place on amazon as well as several 35 foot toslink digital audio cables for $11.52 each. I was a bit concerned at first that a 50 foot hdmi cable that cheap wouldn't work well. I didn't need to be concerned. The upconverted 1080P picture and digital sound transmitted through those cables couldn't be any better.

10 years ago, I paid over 250 bucks for a custom made 20 foot toslink cable. That works no better than the $11.52 cent 35 footers that I bought on amazon. They both sound great.

Scott

I have to really thank you for that heads up. I bought three of those from that link at 99 bucks a shot. Even though I bought from Tiger direct, the price they had on their own websight for it was double...199. Through amazon, Tiger direct was selling for that 99 dollar price.

I originally ordered two, but when they shipped so fast and I loved them when they arrived, I ordered one more before that price jumped up. I got that third one yesterday. Tiger Direct ships from Chicago and I'm near Milwaukee. Even with standard shipping I get it the next day.

As of today, their price on amazon is 199 again. I got a great deal thanks to your post here that I would not have known about otherwise.

The APc 15 is a really nice piece of gear too.

BTW..here is one sitting on top of my 990:

Looks great!

Since I got one for $150, and liked it a lot, I too ordered a second one at the $99 price.

I also have a Panamax M5300-EX

I need to find out how to paint the two APCs so that they match the rest of my black gear...

Looks like the big specials on that APC are history. Audioholics is now at $299 for it.