@nonoise Agreed. Are you ready for none of them to answer my two questions? They won’t, I predict. (Bracing for powerful challenge in 3...2...1...)
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People who say it’s all snake oil raise two questions for me:
1. Do you think that these cords and conditioners have just been fooling everyone for decades? And they are too stupid to realize it and too deluded to know that they are not hearing a difference? If your answer is "yes" then you have a very low opinion of thousands of audiophiles.
2. Have you tried it? And if you had and it made no difference *to you* are you then just willing to extrapolate from one example to everyone else who does hear a difference?
People spruicking power conditioners have the onus on them to show that their product does something.
It is not intellectually appropriate to do a Greco Roman reversal, set up a Kafka’esque trail for the non-believers to offer some testimonial based counter point against the largely testimonial group that likes the power conditioners.
For one it is hard to disprove/prove a negative.
The ifi, for instance, shows the wall noise decreasing with one of their units.
How hard is it to show that some product works as described?
Everybody wants to sell more stuff. But if a power conditioner comes with a 14 gauge cord on it, then I would suggest passing, it isn’t designed to provide power for the spikes. The exception would be if a power conditioner has provisions to store power internally to address the spikes. Need to makes sure impedance doesn’t limit the ability to address fast spikes.
Note to future self @holmz
“When you make a product, then use a large cable, so it looks like it should really work.”
Naysayers’ reasons include:
1) they don’t know what they don’t know
2) they think they know more than they know
3) arrogance
4) ignorance
5) savior complex
6) fear - that their structured world will come crashing down if they’re wrong
7) poor hearing
8) low resolution audio system
9) old guy ’get off my lawn’ stubbornness
10) learning something new requires curiosity and humility
11) they don’t really understand what ’noise’ and/or ’black background’ is
12) they think that proper wire gauge is a panacea
13) ?
^This broad ad hominem attack^ is really nice. It shotguns out wide, and points out all the possible flaws that one can have. Plus it stays emotional, which is more powerful than facts.
It is so encompassing that it also hit the OP, so he is either (pick 1-13) , or needs the gear to be in the “in crowd”.
At least a few people just want to have a factual way to know if something will work before buying it. And I assume that the OP may be somewhat in that group.
But instead of offering any reason or fact, y’all convert it into a circling of the wagons against a naysayer attack, before the attack even began. It is pretty intellectually shameful, but it is great psychology to get everyone in locked step and the coherent message out early.
