Went to a recent dealer event with Garth Powell as the guest speaker. Went through comparison of a couple of speaker cables but was really concentrating on the power cables. Sis comparison of stock cable, thunder, hurricane, dragon. Massive difference between the first three with each iteration...
Have a look on YouTube for videos by Garth Powell of Audioquest, you may not agree with his analysis but after a long time with Furman and Audioquest as their mains products chief designer, he gives an interesting insight as to why mains products work or they don’t. As I say, you might not agree...
I haven’t compared the two and I have a 7000. The difference between the two, as you may have worked out, is the quality of banks 2 & 3, the 7000 has transformers and the 5000 does not. The transformers help on common line noise in particular. The bank 1, intended for power amps, is identical on...