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... 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...
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djones51
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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. 
speedbump6
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Thyname, he will never understand, because he chooses not to.
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mahgister
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Sure new paradigm slowly manifest ...

Affirming that brain create consciousness is not science, at best it is a working hypothesis.... the main actual one for a short time again , but no more a sound working hypothesis only but today mainly an ideology paid by transhumanist theologians... Research go where the money want it to go....

Textbook in neurology are old after few years.... :)

But djones i will give you the point of victory, because my experience and opinion are not mainstream science for now.....My point is made and i dont want to argue too much....

:)
djones51
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Well this working hypothesis is now looking at 3 specific regions of the brain that bring about consciousness. It isn't to create some nefarious post human society but in the hope of being able to bring someone out of a vegetative state. I don't look for points of victory just logic and rationalism. Granted a thread about uber dollar power cords affecting the sound of music is a strange place to look for it. 
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mahgister
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You are not wrong djones....Not completely right also.... :)

But in spite of this laudable medical motivation the paradigm that brain create consciousness is greatly sponsored by Google lobbying and this paradigm is relatively new in human history (200 hundred years) and in the verge to be replaced tomorrow by a more spiritual conception, it is beginning now for those who read in all areas of science....

Read Hameroff and Penrose for example.... It was also the opinion of John Eccles Nobel neurologist etc...

I will repeat myself, "correlations" between the coming out of consciousness or his manifestation and anesthesiological technique for is temporary suppression in the sensible world are not proof nor cause of his genesis by the brain...

Correlations and causes are 2 different business and concepts....

People must work hard to perceive the whole and the wholeness, they easily confine themselves to external parts of phenomena....


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