@boxer1. Interestingly, I haven’t really read about power cords before, though I have read a lot of threads about interconnects and speaker cables. I’m not trying to be a denier per se. If people hear a difference, they hear a difference. But I would like to be clear that I did not say, or if I did then I misspoke, that it cannot make a difference. But I believe I said was, I don’t understand how it would make a difference.
However, I do encourage people to think critically about what they think they hear. There is massive evidence that confirmation bias is a powerful Influence on what the mind thinks it perceives. That’s why I asked the question of how many people who heard a difference actually did a blind listening test. I think it’s frankly intellectually dishonest to assert that you don’t need to do one because “I heard what I heard “. If you do a blind listening test with, say, 10 tries, and you correctly identify two cables nine or 10 times that is powerful evidence that you are hearing a difference. But on the other hand, if you can’t do better than five out of 10, which is no better than simply flipping a coin and guessing, then you do need to ask yourself whether you were actually hearing a difference.
So that is my reply to speedbump. Yes all that matters is whether you hear a difference but to know that definitively you must ascertain whether you are actually hearing a difference as opposed to just thinking you hear a difference. At the end of the day it’s your money and you can do what you want with it and that’s fine.
Oh that said, I have no objection to trying it for myself, And I will as soon as I get my listening room finished. and I will as soon as I get my listening room finished. Though I don’t have well trained ears and so I don’t know whether I would hear a difference from a lot of things.
However, I do encourage people to think critically about what they think they hear. There is massive evidence that confirmation bias is a powerful Influence on what the mind thinks it perceives. That’s why I asked the question of how many people who heard a difference actually did a blind listening test. I think it’s frankly intellectually dishonest to assert that you don’t need to do one because “I heard what I heard “. If you do a blind listening test with, say, 10 tries, and you correctly identify two cables nine or 10 times that is powerful evidence that you are hearing a difference. But on the other hand, if you can’t do better than five out of 10, which is no better than simply flipping a coin and guessing, then you do need to ask yourself whether you were actually hearing a difference.
So that is my reply to speedbump. Yes all that matters is whether you hear a difference but to know that definitively you must ascertain whether you are actually hearing a difference as opposed to just thinking you hear a difference. At the end of the day it’s your money and you can do what you want with it and that’s fine.
Oh that said, I have no objection to trying it for myself, And I will as soon as I get my listening room finished. and I will as soon as I get my listening room finished. Though I don’t have well trained ears and so I don’t know whether I would hear a difference from a lot of things.