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In Reply to: I'm not a cord or cable guy and I know this is going to be trouble posted by oldglide on May 18, 2007 at 20:30:57:
To actually think that after the power coming into your house passes a few hundred feet from the pole (the same exact line being connected to hundreds of things in your house as well as others' houses on the street) and to be ignorant enough to think that the last 3 feet of this several hundred foot long power cable being made of 1 gauge SOLID GOLD wire would make ANY difference is PURE idiocy at its most nonsensical.
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Like you said, you're not a cord or cable guy. If you were, you'd know this is nonsense.
I never said, %22I'm not a cord or cable guy.%22 I RESPONDED to a post called that.
BUT...
Let's say you have a 300 foot power cable coming from the pole outside your house to your music room. This power cable is standard run-of-the-mill cable used all over the country in every neighborhood. Do you honestly believe that upgrading the last 3 feet or so of this 300+ foot cable is going to do ANYTHING????? Wow. This is common sense.
But, then again, there are also people who buy bottled water.
And I could demonstrate it in about 30 seconds. Just another case where "common sense" comes face to face with reality. Remember when people, especialy engineers, believed there couldn't be any difference in the way CD players sound because "bits are bits?"
Or do you still believe that too? :-)
No, different CD players actually have variables which can change the sound ever so slightly. Different D/A converters can sound drastically different. Player/transport induced jitter depending on the error correction used actually can induce technically changes in the audio output which in some rare cases actually is audible. This was a topic years ago in good old Stereo Review under Julian Hirsch; it WAS proven in actual double blind listening tests that CD players CAN induce effects to the sound, despite %22bits being bits%22 on the actual CD. However, this is a COMPLETELY different point than an argument on power cable wiring, and can be attributed to cause and effect and/or logical thinking.
Putting a $10,000 3 foot wire at the end of a 300 foot long wire coming from the pole outside your house doesn't change the fact that you have 297 feet of inferior (supposedly lol) wire leading up to that new and improved last 3 feet. It's impossible for that to change ANYTHING, nevermind the few inches of again inferior (lol) cabling INSIDE the unit itself. If the cabling coming up those 297 feet to the player was in some way bad or had been altered/processed/affected, you are not going to magically turn it into something great by treating it like heaven at the tale end of the problem in the last 3 feet.
For instance, let's say you just ate several ear of %22cow feed%22 field corn straight out of a cattle grazing cornfield. This wasn't the BEST corn you could buy, nor did it taste the best and was barely edible by a longshot. It theoretcially traveled several miles in your intestines, until you excreted it out in your feces. You are not going to be able to pick this corn out of your feces, glue it back on the cob, and somehow magically turn it into the best, sweetest Fulton's white corn this side of Ohio now are you?
it's not the last three feet, but the first three feet. And, oh my, it does matter. And I wouldn't dream of paying $10K for a power cord, but the $100 I did spend was an extremely good value. One of these days you'll look back on posts like this and wince.
I replaced the powercord in my amplifier with 10 dollar powercord. It made a noticable difference. Not real dramatic, but it didn't take a golden eared audiophile to notice the difference.
agreed, but what do you expect , you are in the tape forum.
When I said I wasn't a cord or cable guy I was indicating that YES, this is all a bunch of nonsense. I do not discuss with anyone the issues regarding cables or power cords, I don't need those headaches.
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