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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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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....


djones51
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Where else would you look for consciousness but the brain? Certainly not the liver. 
djones51
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We already know the brainstem is likely responsible for arousal, awareness the other prerequisite for consciousness we're not so sure of, but if arousal is in the brain then that's where we look for awareness. 
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mahgister
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You completely miss my point.... I am afraid that i cannot go on with this subject here.... Too long to explain....

But in a word the consciousness is linked to the brain like a radio is linked to the music or a TV to the meteo summary but neither are in the radio or in the Tv... The Brain is an antenna sort of....Conciouness is like the voice that seems to be in the radio and seems to be  in the Tv but are not there at all...

The brain is a fractal antenna.... In 3 words my metaphor resume my point.....


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