... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound...


Hello to all...

I was shifting around components in my system, trying to squeeze out better controlled bass, more definition within the soundstage, and better define the "voice/midrange" presentation...

I presently have a tube preamp (hardwired with a wall wart) into an HT Receiver; source is a Marantz SA-8001 CD Player

Swapped out a Yamaha HTR -5550 (hardwired) for a Parasound HCA-750A (which needs a power cord).

CD Player is powered with a PS Audio Statement SC power cord, so I went in my closet and pulled out another PS AUDIO Statement SC power cord, hooked it up and expect to give it at least 5 days continuous re-break-in before serious listening.

Took a minute to lookup reviews about this power cord - and I read some rather confusing reviews: some luved 'um, some liked 'um, but some thought them " ...slow... " (?), and giving a veiled presentation...

I'm gonna listen and decide myself - but I'm abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound - I know that interconnects and speaker cables would/could/Do affect sound presentation - but how could a power cord?

Explanation/thoughts please...
insearchofprat
Sound like vibrations exist without consciousness.... But a non interpretated sound by no consciousness is not a "sound" .... certainly not a musical sound....Or a speech sound....

The fact that exist correlations between the manifestation of consciousness and some material measured phenomena in the brain are in no way the proof that the brain create consciousness....

Magazine are "magazine" not science in the philosophical purest sense.... The title of this article is on par with advertisement in Audio magazine ( "How our brain generates consciousness -- and loses it" )... :)

One of the best specialist of anesthesia in the world Stuart Hameroff is a friend of Roger Penrose and none of the two think that brain create consciousness, it is the reverse.... But textbooks and articles are often loaded with old paradigm.... in audio and in science....

By the way the source of this article is :  Data Science Institute at Columbia
Guess who gives them money? probably google  and their crowd of transhumanist ideologue....
I really want that good Google machine someone owns here. Master googler. Who needs brains? A nice Google machine does it.
By the way half of science research on brain and computer is paid by google, and google is the main lobby guiding the research....It is no more pure science.... In medecine the most influential person in the world is the microsoft founder....Where is science?


Yes, it was a magazine article about research on consciousness done at the Data Science Institute at Columbia. It isn't like a music review magazine. The idea the brain creates consciousness isn't something new as you point out. The that the brain creates consciousness is our modern day working theory it isn't the old paradigm but our continuing paradigm. . It isn't something buried in old textbooks that noone takes seriously.