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Hearing is believing?........power cables.......

For anyone who is skeptical about the difference a high quality power cord can make in your high quality audio system........try it.......hearing is believing. About 10 years ago when I bought my first "entry level" hifi system (B&K amp/preamp, Canton speakers) my audio advisor dropped off a Tara Labs Prism power cord. He said just try it for a week and if you don't think it makes a difference just return it. I, like most unfamiliar with high quality cables, was skeptical.......how could a cable 1 meter long from the wall to my equipment make a difference? I put it on the power amp and yes I could definitely tell there was a more defined bass and overall clearer soundscape. I'm a musicians, so I figured maybe the "non audiophile" can't hear the difference. So my brother-in-law who is a bricklayer came over and we did a blind listening test. I randomly switched the Tara, sometimes trying to fool him......told him I switched but didn't........he could tell every time I used the Tara! So I was convinced that it was "wishful thinking on my part or particularly sensitive ears. If you don't think a great power cable can make a difference........take the challenge. Try one for a week and see (hear) for yourself!
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randy-11
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only if it's good poetry
randy-11
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the problem is that liberal arts majors do NOT get a balanced education -- I know that quite well, having been close to the problem for some years

Lack of a basic science education leads to worse things than wasting money on placebo cables, anti-vaxers for example
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dynaquest4
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kahlenz says: "I do not need a course in physics to buy a power cable.  There are plenty of choices available in all price ranges."

Of course there are.  As long as there are consumers who will pay more...believing that the more they pay the better their system will sound...the higher the price will go.  I mean, really, a power cord for $6000? Really? Really?

That power cable only exists because someone entepenuer knew if he built it fancy, packaged it well and marketed it to the easily swayed, he could sell enough to make a killing.  Good for him...the American way.

As someone said a long time ago: "Buyer beware!". But then you have to have a certain level of smarts to know to beware.
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jafant
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Synergy is key when we start talking about power cord(s) (PC) that cost more than $2K.  Certainly at $5/6K level system synergy, correct selection of gear is pivotal.  I have spent some time w/ Stage III Concepts and Silent Source (PC),  they are nothing less than outstanding, adding another level of better listening pleasure.


Happy Listening!

clearthink
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  "I mean, really, a power cord for $6000? Really? Really? 

That power cable only exists because someone entepenuer knew if he built it fancy, packaged it well and marketed it to the easily swayed, he could sell enough to make a killing"

Perhaps you should consider that who you refer to as the "easily swayed" is more accurately yourself who is "easily swayed" by the notion that for some arbitrary reason of yours $6,000 is apparently too much to spend on a power cable. Perhaps those who buy the $6,000 power cables are not especially "easily swayed" at all, but are making a consumer choice with which they are comfortable whereas in your case it would be a purchase that would make you uncomfortable perhaps if only because such a consumer purchase would be beyond your budget.

The concept that there is something defective about those who might spend $6,000 on a power cable is actually a form of prejudice about someone you have obviously not met and whose budgetary and financial realities differ from yours to such an extent that you are unable to comprehend how they could possibly execute such a purchase and remain rational and yet at the same time you call them "easily swayed" so obviously you have a flaw in your "logic" here.

Moreover if we examine this "easily swayed" person who's behavior you conjure from your fertile imagination  you might ask yourself that if indeed this person is so "easily swayed" how is it that they have $6,000 to spend on a power cable rather than having already spent it on some other tomfoolery such as pricey cars or truckloads of Girl Scout cookies? After all they are so "easily swayed" how is it that the $6,000 power cable has so "easily swayed" their decision whereas other beckoning consumer products have failed to absorb their expendable $6,000?


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