LFD offers power cords and interconnects as well as speaker cables for their Integrated.
Why not?
I have always wondered why if better cables produce better sound, as appears to be the consensus, I am not aware of any manufacturer that provides an aftermarket quality power cable with their product. If I am wrong please tell me. There may be instances I am not familiar with.
Wouldn't they be in the best position to test or design the optimum cable for their component? Wouldn't it be a great marketing angle to say to the customer does not need to worry or fret about selecting this expensive accessory.
"We know these cables show off our component to best effect and there is not question of listener bias or self interested market hype. We offer you the best cable to use with our components."
They could make it optional if they wanted to remain price competitive. This same thinking applies to interconnects, especially with manufacturers who make multiple interconnected components. I pose these questions in all sincerity, not particularly wishing to stir the cable controversy pot. But because it is precisely the absence of this practice that most makes me doubt the objective superiority of the whole cable enterprise.
Mostly I would like to know if I am wrong and there are some examples of manufacturers who either include, offer or recommend specific power, interconnect and speaker cable for their products. Thanks community members for offering a place to ask this question that keeps gnawing at me.
Good luck with that @bruce19 Besides, what seems to be the problem officer? Pick one cable. Anything. Try for yourself. Simple. No? What are you trying to accomplish? What are you trying to “change” here?
Nobody is going to do the work for you. You have to figure this out yourself. By trying. Or you keep reading and posting in the Internets. If that’s your thing. |
The difference is that medicine is part of science, and there are standards like double blind tests, the AMA, CDC, FDA, etc that regulate that they are “doing no harm”… just like the old Greek Hippocrates advocated. The “It feels good” branch of homeopathics, and aeroma therapy, etc. may work, or may not… but there is little evidence that it does, and is viewed as “witch doctor medicine” from a western perspective… And hence we do not have aftermarket cables on pacemakers, nor aftermarket power cords nor batteries. That gear has to work as intended, and there is no room for the subjective experience to be considered worthwhile when defibrillating. It objectively becomes pretty clear whether a defibrillator works or not.
I am looking forwards to what you come up with. I kind of like your pacemaker analogy. |
Why all the back and forth? Just try some better power cords — either buy used and sell at little/no loss or buy direct from the many direct sellers and take advantage of their generous trial/return policies — and if they don’t make a significant improvement stick with the generic PCs and live happily ever after. What I can’t accept is when people just reject out of hand PCs can make a difference and never even try better cables yet preach that better PCs can’t make a difference because there are no measurements to support it. That’s just willful ignorance, and as @ghdprentice as a scientist has stated and while he might not fully understand why PCs make a significant difference, in reality they do in his experience for whatever reason. Bottom line — not everything is measurable relative to what the human ear can hear. So for those of you who follow the dogma that PCs shouldn’t make a difference, you’ve got no excuse as it’s free, or very near free, to try several brands and use your ears to see if they make a difference. If they don’t, then fine you’re right where you started from with some good personal experience to support your beliefs. If you haven’t yet tried better PCs, what are you afraid of — that your preconceived world might be upset and you can’t explain why? Who cares? If you get better sound you win whether you can explain it in measurements or not. Sheesh. |