Several album tracks I play and enjoy a lot, were not altered by replacing power cords, they were improved upon in terms of resolution and or details.
What could not be heard prior to the swap could be heard after the swap.
How then is this possible if power cords do nothing but supply power and any power cord would suffice?
The areas of improvement were in the bottom most octave on a Stanley turrentine cut, and a clearer midrange depicting subtle cues in the Four Play track off the heartfelt album. What was once silent or audidbly invisible before hand, were plainly evident with a different power cable.
This was a repeateable affair. I put the current PCs back into the rig to ensure my discovery was not imagined. Sure enough those sonic cues disappeared. Replacing the amp (s PCs thereafter revealed these bits of the recording once again.)
These particular songs were among ‘go to’ cuts I used for determining the system consequent on going alterations.
Its about as scientific as any other testing scenario one can conduct in their listening room could determine.
An O scope would not have heard those missing sonics, or realized there abrupt presence I don’t think.
As said, by other feedback herein, dunno. Don’t care to know. All I know is what I’m hearing and I don’t drink, do drugs, I take nothing in the past couple decades and change, which could artificially change my mood or my mind, so I’m quite sure there was nothing supposed, imaginary, or delisional about my distinctions.
Neither did I very much like the notion of being faced with the proposition of having to find another $1000 for a pair of those PCs on the used mkt at the time.
But as with every thread of this sort. The only answer that will ever hold water is for the OP to get out there and try a few brands and a model or two within those brands … one at a time to see.
Experimenting with tweaking a stereo rig is at times, a labor of love. By golly Miss Molly, you’ll have to love it to deal with the frakin’ tedium that ensues when you start chasing sonic upgrades via cables. They do make a difference as does most any other portion of the outfit, provided it has exceptional resolution, but finding the mix which is in fact better and not just different is IMO frustrating.
One thing about doing the ‘’which wire’ dance’, is this, you’ll find out fairly quickly who are the pretenders and who are the contenders. Regardless their claims or pricing.
It will help you to have two things. Some IEC to NEMA adapters and more than one system on board. If for no other reason than preventing excessive wear on the main rig.
The adapters do the most work. The secondary system is merely further confirmation.
Best luck…
What could not be heard prior to the swap could be heard after the swap.
How then is this possible if power cords do nothing but supply power and any power cord would suffice?
The areas of improvement were in the bottom most octave on a Stanley turrentine cut, and a clearer midrange depicting subtle cues in the Four Play track off the heartfelt album. What was once silent or audidbly invisible before hand, were plainly evident with a different power cable.
This was a repeateable affair. I put the current PCs back into the rig to ensure my discovery was not imagined. Sure enough those sonic cues disappeared. Replacing the amp (s PCs thereafter revealed these bits of the recording once again.)
These particular songs were among ‘go to’ cuts I used for determining the system consequent on going alterations.
Its about as scientific as any other testing scenario one can conduct in their listening room could determine.
An O scope would not have heard those missing sonics, or realized there abrupt presence I don’t think.
As said, by other feedback herein, dunno. Don’t care to know. All I know is what I’m hearing and I don’t drink, do drugs, I take nothing in the past couple decades and change, which could artificially change my mood or my mind, so I’m quite sure there was nothing supposed, imaginary, or delisional about my distinctions.
Neither did I very much like the notion of being faced with the proposition of having to find another $1000 for a pair of those PCs on the used mkt at the time.
But as with every thread of this sort. The only answer that will ever hold water is for the OP to get out there and try a few brands and a model or two within those brands … one at a time to see.
Experimenting with tweaking a stereo rig is at times, a labor of love. By golly Miss Molly, you’ll have to love it to deal with the frakin’ tedium that ensues when you start chasing sonic upgrades via cables. They do make a difference as does most any other portion of the outfit, provided it has exceptional resolution, but finding the mix which is in fact better and not just different is IMO frustrating.
One thing about doing the ‘’which wire’ dance’, is this, you’ll find out fairly quickly who are the pretenders and who are the contenders. Regardless their claims or pricing.
It will help you to have two things. Some IEC to NEMA adapters and more than one system on board. If for no other reason than preventing excessive wear on the main rig.
The adapters do the most work. The secondary system is merely further confirmation.
Best luck…