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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: Power cords my ass.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/20/2017
Power cords is the
most ridicules subject that I have seen in audio and they define all rules,
would it be stupid rules or sensible rules. There is absolutely no difference
in power cords construction, built quality, price, material use, insolation, conductor
type of purity or anything else for that matter. All of power cords
sound different and I have seen from some minor incremental Sound improvement
or worsening to VERY fundamental Sound change only after changing a power cord.
It would be easy to describe power cord influence by type of PS, the type of
filtration used, power entry used, grounding schema, type of transformer wounded
but the really is a bit more complex. The very same power cords with very different
components work very differently and in most of the cases not repitable. A one specific
power cord could do marvelously with my preamp in a good electricity day but do
very badly during other days. So, my rule is to have many different power cord
and to try. When I trying to catch what cord would be the best I do not go for “best
sound” but rather for “steady sound”. What I discovered that the cord that do
spectacular do not do well all time but rather cords that do just OK have a tendency
to maintain this OK status for a long time and under any condition.
Now, do not even ask me to
explain why power cords matter. I have absolutely no idea and with 3 kids under
roof I am not planning to spend next 20 years of my life to discovering it. It
is not necessary because “kids are better” but because with kid you know the result.
With the damn power cords I very much assure you that even in 20 years no one
will understand why they change sound so much very much as no one can truly understand
how bad electricity impacts sound.
Rgs,
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