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Is it all in my head??

So I bought a Kimber Power Kord...  yeah, yeah, but it looks prettier than stock, is well built, and having built all my cables myself I appreciated the craftsmanship.

...so, I'm playing an Everest LP--symphony stuff.. and it always sounded noisy and muffled (which is why i decided to give it a spin).  The power cable is plugged into my furman conditioner, and all the other cables are the same.  I swear this LP sounds more "untangled" now (that's the best way i can describe it).

I am an engineer and know intellectually this makes zero sense--is it some confirmation bias?  How can it be.. i didnt buy it expecting a sonic impact, i bought it because i couldn't make one that looks as cool (think of it as a necklace for my rig).  But I swear I think i hear a difference...  tell me it's all in my head.
waltertexas
boxer12
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prof says
" Friends, including fellow audiophiles have described the sensation of hearing my systems as “spooky real” and are generally amazed.

BTW, this didn’t take any aftermarket power cables or expensive high end speaker cables/interconnects to achieve :)"

It sounds like you have a great system prof. Do you use any power conditioning or audio grade outlets? 
prof
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elizabeth wrote:

—-“ So what was the problem? HIM. He could NOT accept HE was having trouble feeling anything in his feet. It HAD to be the car. Even telling him point blank.. Did not matter. ten minutes later it was the car...Sad. Some folks cannot get past the ego. “

Totally agree.  Some people’s ego seems so wedded to their subjective infallibility that they have trouble even imagining, let alone admitting, they COULD be wrong.

Those of is who proceed on the well justified assumption we could be wrong, find this very strange.  Finding out how we could be wrong, or if we are wrong, is a way of being open to learning.  I just find it odd that so many seem closed to this.
prof
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boxer12

No audio grade outlets.  Until very recently no power conditioning at all. However I added some new equipment not long ago, which finally got me to redressing my wiring.   I found that a couple of Furman PST-8 SMP EVS power bars quite useful, especially their shape which makes the outlets more easily reachable for me.  Don’t mind whatever isolation/protection they may give the system as well.   Didn’t hear any change to my system after they went in.
analogluvr
859 posts
 
 Exactly! And those of us who question our/and others ability to hear the differences between power cords are not the ones on the ego trip as we are admitting that we are susceptible to bias. 
@elizabeth.  I’m confused, I thought you insisted you can always hear the difference between power cords?? Your story reads as if you are saying people who claim they can hear the difference are on a massive ego trip because they cannot admit their senses may be fallible? 
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
That’s a bit of a Strawman argument regarding audiophiles and friends describing prof’s sound as “so real it’s spooky” since, uh, you know, most audiophiles are not good judges of what’s real and what’s not. Oh, did I just question another person’s hearing ability? My bad. That Strawman argument is closely related to another common naysayer argument, “My engineer friends laughed so hard when I told them about audiophile power cords milk squirted out of their noses.” Everything is relative. One man’s spooky is another man’s ho, hum. No offense to anyone, as usual.
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