Do powercords make a difference in sound?

Mapman, I'm sorry, but as I said that doesn't make your case. I doubt seriously given my experiences that many pcs are well engineered or as I would prefer, designed. As we know from NASA, neither are rockets perfectly designed and trajectories perfect, or we would not need midcourse corrections.

I don't expect to alter your opinion, and you should not expect to alter mine. I would never argue that a power cord can solve all the problems with unclean power. Maybe Enid Lumley was right a long time ago, when she said we all need to generate our own power off grid.

All I can really say is that I have heard changes on the same component of many different power cords. Their impacts varied greatly. I certainly don't have cheap power cords, but I have seldom heard benefits provided by very expensive power cords to justify their prices.

BIG TIME HELLO!!

Tbg,

Sounds like we agree on more than disagree.

I wouldn't compare the technical complexity of building a good PC or launching a successful space mission to that required of a power cord though. Very poor analogies!

Plus the space program is government funded therefore I would look there for innovation perhaps but not value.

Succesful commercial computer technologies tend to deliver both or do not survive.

High end wires are a boutique market with limited market. By their nature, they have to be expensive in order to survive. Only a select few will see value for whatever reason.

I might like to buy NASA mission grade surplus power cords if available for market value. Anybody know of such a thing? I think I have seen some power receptacles around this site that are of similar lineage.

Rwwear, I'll take that title "fanatic" as a complement. :)
If using several sets of cables in comparison is fanatical, then it applies. If facilitating dozens upon dozens of real world comparisons on the effects of cables (including comparison of silver vs. copper conductors) is fanatical, then it applies. :)

You may take it as you may. If you have compared dozens upon dozens of cables I submit your judgement will become convoluted very easily after just a few. Unless you have a number of folks doing blind listening without outside influence and being sure to take notes, it would be in the least very difficult to believe your claims by me. I'm not insulting your methods, they are just hearsay if using a scientific approach. I have heard so many claims that just don't hold up under scrutiny that I have to have irrefutable evidence before I will begin to believe unlikely statements such as being able to hear the difference between copper and silver power cables. I am not saying you can't. I am just very skeptical.