I wonder why......

The comparison to high end tires is weak. Tires are easily tested for speed, control, and tread life. Its easy to test tires on a track and pick out good performance tires vs stock Ford Fiesta tires. To me, that's where making statements like "a huge difference" is valid. Audiophiles are constantly preaching  to the enlightened choir because the average music lover will never understand what they are not hearing. Sad.

Nonoise, your friend reminds me a lot of this one audiophile I used to know. He couldn’t go two words about wire without turning it into some kind of rant or snide comment. Or for sure the eye roll or like you said, facial expressions and body language giving the truth away so no matter what he said you just knew he was convinced its all BS. Which I wish I had on video the time he brought his masterpiece homebrew wire over to demo, only to hear with his own ears just how pathetically awful it was. I mean there was no denying it. And he knew it. No matter what he said, the truth was as plain as the pain on his face.

This is what I really do not get. If you can’t hear a difference, why not just say you can’t hear a difference? Totally understandable. We all start from zero. Or if you can hear a difference but its not enough to be worth it to you, if you value your money more highly than your sound, why not just say so? Isn’t this the very basis on which to build a system? By putting together a bunch of components each of which are deemed the best value at the time? "Not worth it" is in that sense positive. Progress. Essential, even.

To be in denial though, that I do not understand at all.

The year is 2019. Four years ago Ted Denney came out with the 20th Anniversary Edition of his AC Master Coupler. 20th anniversary. Plus 4 years. According to my math that is 24 years. And Synergistic Research was hardly the first. They just happened to be the one to come out with a power cord so freaking good it sold for over 20 years and still commands high resale value even now.

That is an awful long time for there to still be people around so obtuse they still don’t get it. I mean that is the kind of dense known to warp space and time itself.

I've always wondered why there is a difference with a couple feet of power cord when there is literally thousands of feet-miles of wire between your power generator and your equipment. lets not even get into the wire in your house or what's inside your equipment i.e. transformers - hook up wire. . So why does that  few feet make a difference? I hear it and I'm still baffled by it. Why would direction make any difference in a power cord it is AC power after all. 


Maybe its real maybe its hopeful thinking but dam if I don't have an aftermarket power cord on everything..... sucker maybe, maybe not...but I'm not complaining when I'm sucked into my chair listening to music. 

After all its all about the music right? RIGHT!

Couple of comments;

1. Never said aftermarket power chords didn't have an effect or weren't worth it. Just raised a question about why they weren't offered as part of the OE package. Raising the thought that perhaps OEMs didn't feel it was worth it was not a condemnation of those who buy and claim benefits from aftermarket cords. I haven't had that experience thus far.

2) Responses fall into the usual 3 categories; 1) those that address the question and offer constructive commentary, 2) those that miss the point of the question, and 3) those that have no idea what they're talking about.

3) Constructive responses (IMO) that I hadn't considered included granny ring's "what length?", millercarbon's "needed for component resale", and pgaulk60's " everyone loves options". All good points.

4) Several responses supported the "there is no point to aftermarket cords" theory.  Whether true or not, that was not the point of my original question.

J.Chip