It's good you watch me , Debunk. I may be mistaken, but I come from the truth. First, I want to compliment Casey's choice of power cord. The thing about it being dark, I believe to be mistaken. I think that you have to be very careful about changing the power cord. In fact, I would advise those people who have the earlier versions of the 8's to upgrade to this power cord(thank you, Maria). I would advise anyone to lift their signal cables 8 inches from the floor(Mapleshades advice). I would especially recommend that signal cables be separated from power cables(thank you, Naim). I'm only interested in the effect music has. I would be interested in comments from people who have the 9.02's versus the 8.5's.