For Buckingham: I have not kept the cables from speaking for themselves--it was their copywriter who started writing all that mumbo jumbo on the website. To a critical thinker like me stuff like that just turns me away from a product. It can be a great product (read again, I wrote that I have not auditioned it and am not against it), but the bad copywriting works against it.
Again, I don't think audio grade power cords should have filtration incorporated in them. It's only my opinion...
The simplicity of the Absolute Power Cord is one of the things I like about it. Its just a power cord.
Allow me to paraphrase Bruce Lee: "Before studying the arts a punch was just a punch. While studying the arts, a punch was more than a punch. After studying the arts, a punch is just a punch."
From "Tao of Jeet Kune Do"