Tape Trail

Posted by ggoat!!! on May 22, 2007 at 07:49:33

In Reply to: RE: Yep, I honestly believe it. posted by Dave Pogue on May 22, 2007 at 04:04:23

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?