"Fancy" versus "cheap." Not defined. I only use "Fancy" power cords after testing a few dozen, while only a few "cheap" ones. The cheap ones sound lousy in my high end system, even when it was a mid-fi system. My fancy power cords are made by GroverHuffman.com. They sell for about $750 and take 2 hours of labor to construct under a US Patent. My friend's $500,000 hi end system used Pangea power cables and his system was way out of whack with weird frequency response and restricted dynamics. He just put one of my cables in his power amp and noticed the huge difference. He ended up replacing all 6 of his power cables. He was an electrical engineer and though he had high end cabling for ICs and speaker wire, he thought power cables couldn't make a difference. Was he wrong! His speakers are YG Sonja 2.3s-high end.
Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy
"Audiophiles are Snobs" Youtube features an idiot! He states, with no equivocation, that $5,000 and $10,000 speakers sound equally good and a $500 and $5,000 integrated amp sound equally good. He is either deaf or a liar or both!
There is a site filled with posters like him called Audio Science Review. If a reasonable person posts, they immediately tear him down, using selected words and/or sentences from the reasonable poster as100% proof that the audiophile is dumb and stupid with his money. They also occasionally state that the high end audio equipment/cable/tweak sellers are criminals who commit fraud on the public. They often state that if something scientifically measures better, then it sounds better. They give no credence to unmeasurable sound factors like PRAT and Ambiance. Some of the posters music choices range from rap to hip hop and anything pop oriented created in the past from 1995.
Have any of audiogon (or any other reasonable audio forum site) posters encountered this horrible group of miscreants?
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