The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance

geoffkait18,554 posts11-27-2019 11:58amI suspect nonoise is mistaking courteousness with sanity. By his own admission mahgister is not a towering technical genius. He’s a nice guy, though. 🤗


I am not completely objectively sane, and I agree with Geoffkait also that I am not a "towering technical genius" and not even " a technical genius" and alas " not a genius"... Only a creative normal guy who love books...

But if I can made a remark, in society, and this thread is a society, courteousness is social sanity, in an asylum, if all the fools were polite, the doctors would be in pain to make a bad diagnostic...I can say that humor and comedy is akin to courteousness...Not sufficient tough but a very promising societal trait...

Thanks Geoffkait for saying that I am a nice guy, that will make my day...

If being "on high" is making posts that hopefully teach the vast number of people that read forums, but don’t post, that the path to audio nirvana is not standing on your tiptoes, with your head exactly in line with mid-point of the tweeter and midrange, while holding your breath, but only on Tuesdays, and only after you have paid $60/minute for telephone audiophilia, and certainly not before you have consulted with the guy on the corner, the one with the trench-coat, who you must allow to ply you with his wares, and don’t worry, his "trust-me" is worth more than any PhD, and absolutely not before personally going on expedition in preferably an Amazonian rainforest for raw materials to build at least 8 bisymetrical structures,

..... but ..... just like always, it predominantly comes down to good speakers that you like, learning how to and actually treating your room, buying an amplifier that your speakers and you are happy with, and then accessorizing with and appropriate quality source and pre-amp, and if your source is vinyl, prepare to allocate more into that. Anything on top of that is gravy.

It doesn’t matter what wheels and tires, or spark-plug wires, or ECU upgrade you do, that 1979 Chevette it still a Chevette.

That’s very good Mitch. I can’t reveal the true nature of “the mission” for reasons that will become obvious later. 🚨 

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..... but ..... just like always, it predominantly comes down to good speakers that you like, learning how to and actually treating your room, buying an amplifier that your speakers and you are happy with, and then accessorizing with and appropriate quality source and pre-amp, and if your source is vinyl, prepare to allocate more into that. Anything on top of that is gravy.

I do that exactly...But I did not fall in love with my audio system, even if each link in my audio system is good, so good and carefully choosen, that the solution that appears to me was not upgrading and buying better gear ... It was instructing myself about some basic facts, and experimenting in some alternative way...I fall in love after creating my stones grid and homemade linked Schumann generators, and making my homemade Helmholtz resonators, and my homemade low cost "singing resonators"... And last but not least treating homemade my central electrical grid with stones...

I am now in love with my audio system... Sometimes it takes more than good links in the audio system, even more than just a conventional room treatment, I think that some tweaks act for the good...It is not snake oil by the way, I make all that myself, without measuring anything, and by my ordinary hearing declining ears...My best to you...

nonoise,
Ok, I can see your point of view in your follow-up post.  Thanks.