Can a power cord increase the resolution of an Class D (SMPS) amp by more than 5% ?

@Buckhorn_Cortez, if you are referring to one of my earlier posts, I did not say that photons travel **through** wire. In fact I said that they don’t, aside from those corresponding to the small amount of energy that may be absorbed by the resistance of the wire and converted to heat. My basic points were as follows:

(a)In the case of electrical signals or power being conducted via wires, energy is conveyed via an electromagnetic wave. That is why the energy can propagate at near light speed, even though individual electrons move at vastly slower speeds.

(b)In the case of electrical signals or power being conducted via wires, the electromagnetic wave propagates **outside** of the conductors, aside from the slight exception I mentioned above. That is why propagation velocity is affected by the dielectric constant of the insulation surrounding the conductors. Also, if the energy of an electrical signal or power was not conveyed via an electromagnetic wave propagating outside of the conductors, transformers wouldn’t work.

(c)All electromagnetic waves, not just light waves, are comprised of photons.

Also, as indicated in one of the references I provided, photons exhibit properties of both waves and particles. I’m not familiar with the double slit experiment you mentioned, but I suspect it involves their wave properties.

Regards,

-- Al

OK, good question. How do we know that the electromagnetic wave that travels through a copper or other metal conductor is comprised of photons? There are several clues. One clue is that all electromagnetic waves are comprised of photons, not just EM waves in the visible light spectrum. All radio waves, from ELF to VLF to SHF to UHF are also electromagnetic waves and are comprised of photons. Same for more energetic EM waves like X-rays and Gamma waves. They are all photons but with different energies. Satellite communications - also photons. Another clue is that we know there is a 1/4 second up and down delay associated with satellite communications for satellites in synchronous orbit, which most are. That delay of 1/4 second is due to the speed of photons which we know to be constant in a vacuum of 186,000 miles per second. The up and down distance for satellite communications is about 48,000 miles. That explains the 1/4 second delay. Are you with me? Then assume the audio signal is an electromagnetic wave. There is a lot of evidence for that especially that the audio signal travels at some large fraction of the speed of light in audio cable. We also know how fast audio signals travel through the copper cable and or optical fiber based telephone system. It’s also a large fraction of the speed of light.

Even if you want to accept the theory that much of the audio signal travels through the dielectric and outside the wire per se, you’re still stuck with the conclusion that the audio signal is an electromagnetic wave and therefore comprised of photons. Obviously photons can travel through solid materials since visible light can travel through air and water, those are obvious examples. Other obvious examples are RFI traveling through concrete and glass and your microwave-based mobile device’s capability to operate inside a house or apartment building or shopping center.

re the Double Slit experiment - the famous Double Slit experiment demonstrated that LIGHT, i.e., photons, acts as both particles and waves. The visible light photons don’t pass through the solid material, only through the slits. The interference pattern that showed up on the other side of the Double Slit experiment was proof that the individual particles of photons fired through the slits acted like waves. They interfered with each other. Of course we know now that all particles act as waves also, electrons, neutrons, even a bowling ball would exhibit wave properties - if you could build the proper experiment. By the way, the Single Slit Experiment also produces an interference pattern. What?! 😬

Al, you’re not familiar with the Double Slit experiment? Shirley you jest. 😁

Thanks @geoffkait  

Here is a simple animation to illustrate the 'very slight delay.'

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/waves/em.cfm

Shirley you jest.

As Leslie Nielsen said in the movie "Airplane," which I'm sure you've seen, "don't call me Shirley" :-)

BTW, I agree with everything in your post.

Regards,
-- Al 

In the beginning of 2015 I started to do new research in electricity. In 2002 I already started to test powercables, and mann they can make a huge improvement.

You need to maximise everthing first before you can use powercables at the max. You need to create a separate audiogroup for your audio. To use better electricity cables from where it starts to your outlet.

And you need the best conditioner for the money you can get. And here you have the same problem based on the fact that most conditioners are incomplete and not able to reveal all the different properties of sound.

All the trail and error peopel have no F idea which properties are there and which are missing. They all do audio by pure gambling.

But........electricity is much more complex. Also in 2015 I started to do research in smog, magnetism and high frequent noise. I always have many conversations with people who are specialized in these areas. And we have conversations sometimes for hours on the phone.

They have not the time I have and not the level in audio as I own. But they still give me great information and ideas. I also read a lot on the internet of all the different parts.

I made huge steps in the last few months. Like a client of mine said; you are able to put knowledge on knowledge over and over again. It is like I am building a watchtower and it becomes higher and higher. I can see more things which I could not see and hear before.

The acoustics, electricity, smog, magnetism and high frequent noise have a huge influence on each part in your system. I can garantee you all that you have no F.idea how much you loose in quality and effectivity.

You only have access for a low % of the whole quality each single part in your system can create. The new Audioquest powercables created new things and options based on the adjustments I created in sound.

This make me reach a superior level out of any powercable. Which never can be reached by all those 1980 audio thinkers. I will invite the 2 people who are in charge of Audioquest Europe soon to show them and proof how low the level is what they can use of their new powercables

And after that I will let them hear what I created. And no I will never tell them how I do it. It is my knowledge and ideas and they are not for free.

Beside the knowledge they also only can think at the level of a child. What I told them on the phone. They also do audio by trial and error. It cost me thousands of tests and almost 20 years to be able to think at this level.

It is that difficult to understand it. When I say; I see you as children it is no F joke. It is a 100% fact what I can proof by sound and I can do it over and over again. It is not that I want to make them look like fools. I want them to understand that trial and error is the dead of audio. And that it will decrease the audiomarket each year more and more.