Let's talk power cords

I told @atmasphere:

If you think Geoff is a troll, please alert the moderators.

He answered:

I have on many occasions. And for things like this ...

Your beef is really with the moderators, Ralph. Geoff seems to be playing by the rules here.

It is a a fact that you will hear an improvement with a cable in a better sound system. By the way, not only the cable are important but also speaker binding post, a bad one would shrink and distorted the sound and a good one would make the music bloom.  I just do the change and wow !

audiosens"It is a a fact that you will hear an improvement with a cable in a better sound system"

Of course yes that is a completely factual statement as many here on the Audiogon forums can readily attest based on first hand experience with they're Music Reproduction Systems but equally true is that there are "naysayers" hear who believe as a matter of faith that such an audible difference is impossible so even though they have no proofs of they're own they often demand proofs from others it is most unusual! As if that is not alone enough to "boggle" the mind these same "naysayers" will claim to have science on they're side and that you are engaged in a fraud or snake oil.

The mind of the Uber skeptic is not really that hard to figure out. As it turns out they really don’t care that much one way or the other. They don’t really have a dog in the fight. 🐶 It’s all about the action. Like whack-a-mole. Action...reaction! It’s sooo obvious. Even hear the expression, “Don’t feed the Uber Skeptics?” 

thinking more about the diode effect analogous to a fuzz pedal, what if the effect was much more subtle than a fuzz pedal yet still perceptible to the human auditory system?  Possible? Could it be measured, and if not with current technology, still be audible?  This is the part that I find truly fascinating: that we may be able to hear very subtle differences that we have yet to measure accurately enough or even account for.

@jc4659 If the effect were there to begin with, I suspect it would be audible. But its not. The reason you hear differences between power cables is not directionality. Its voltage drop, plain and simple. Some at audio frequencies, and some at ultrasonic frequencies, depending on the rectifiers in the power supplies of the equipment used, as I explained earlier at the bottom of page 4 of this thread.

If there even was directional wire, power cable manufacturers would be working really hard to build cables from non-directional wire since it would sound better.

Your beef is really with the moderators, Ralph. Geoff seems to be playing by the rules here.

@cleeds  The first statement is true, the second is not. Geoff's MO is not to only to try to refute arguments (I've no beef with that) but also to make personal insults and attacks on anyone that challenges his mythology. This is one of the definitions of a troll. To be within typical forum rules, the principle is "attack the argument not the poster". For now, moderation seems to be content to tolerate trolls, which is unfortunate, as it makes it harder to wade through threads to find the useful bits.