I think at this stage I am ready to believe anything after an event last night.
Acquired a McIntosh mvp851 very very cheap on ebay due to broken front panel although in perfect working order. Came with stock power cord about 6ft long and where it sits in rack is only about 1ft from power. So again perusing ebay saw a listing for a 1.5ft power cord by company called BLE Designs for just $32 shipped. Well it will fit better and look nice if nothing else so bought it. Arrived yesterday along with a new cd so stuck the cd in listened to a couple tracks and then powered off and changed out the power cord. Back on started playing same tracks again and I did not even get back to my sofa without knowing this was totally different sound!
Talk about reverse expectation bias if there is any such thing!
The whole sound was ...well just "more" for want of a better description.
A very audible difference
This is not my first power cord...lol. Have Cardas, WireWorld PS Audio and never heard any difference at all.
So what makes this different?
Am I going to suggest you all rush out and buy power cords from BLE Design?
Hell no!
What I think happened and is also happening on the fuse front is that there will be some components and combinations that benefit from these tweaks and some that just do not.
I truly believe that all these people on both sides cannot be wrong. Some have heard a difference and some have not.
Does that mean these fuses will work for everybody in all systems, of course not, just the same as this el cheapo power cord I bought worked well for me it may well do nothing for you.
This is just one of those threads that is never ending and truly there is no right or wrong.
Acquired a McIntosh mvp851 very very cheap on ebay due to broken front panel although in perfect working order. Came with stock power cord about 6ft long and where it sits in rack is only about 1ft from power. So again perusing ebay saw a listing for a 1.5ft power cord by company called BLE Designs for just $32 shipped. Well it will fit better and look nice if nothing else so bought it. Arrived yesterday along with a new cd so stuck the cd in listened to a couple tracks and then powered off and changed out the power cord. Back on started playing same tracks again and I did not even get back to my sofa without knowing this was totally different sound!
Talk about reverse expectation bias if there is any such thing!
The whole sound was ...well just "more" for want of a better description.
A very audible difference
This is not my first power cord...lol. Have Cardas, WireWorld PS Audio and never heard any difference at all.
So what makes this different?
Am I going to suggest you all rush out and buy power cords from BLE Design?
Hell no!
What I think happened and is also happening on the fuse front is that there will be some components and combinations that benefit from these tweaks and some that just do not.
I truly believe that all these people on both sides cannot be wrong. Some have heard a difference and some have not.
Does that mean these fuses will work for everybody in all systems, of course not, just the same as this el cheapo power cord I bought worked well for me it may well do nothing for you.
This is just one of those threads that is never ending and truly there is no right or wrong.