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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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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.....


djones51
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You believe consciousness is outside the body, dualism. 
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Read books by Bernardo Kastrup it is not too heavy and are very good...

My master thinker is Goethe and countless others ....


No i am not a dualist at all.... :)

Matter does not exist since 1925 (quantum mechanics) except for some engineer... :)

If you like physics read David Bohm a friend of Einstein and a Dirac Disciple...

For the brain the more simple to read is holographic idea by Pribram a friend of Bohm... For Pribram a very influential neurologist the brain is an active fractal antenna and the universe is a kind of hologram....

The matrix idea in cinema are only materialistic gross interpretation of that by some A. I. transhumanist engineers....
jderimig
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Sound is totally an interpretation by the brain. 100% abstract. Pressure waves are real.
Like sound, time is totally created by the brain, its not real, it is man made. Clocks are real, time isn’t.

Music is the brains interpretation of pressure waves and time. Total fugazi by the brain.

Drugs have a greater effect on SQ than cables. Same chemistry is at work in your brain when you know you have switched or paid $$$ for new wires.  Its a natural human chemical defense mechanism to justify your bias.
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mahgister
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:)

Prints are real, poetry is not....

My wife perfume are real, his love is not...

For me it is the reverse....

Clocks are material artefact then illusory without the consciousness that read them and create them....

Pressure waves are illusory phenomena if not interpretated by consciousness...

You read too much bad science....Matter does not exist at all, by the way since Planck discovery...

I apologize for my sarcasm.... But.... Awake yourself....

By the way read about prime numbers they are more complex than the universe, they are infinite, and they are printed nowwhere like the truest poetry...
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