Power cable dilemma

Who gives one great God damn if there’s been a “quantum leap” or not?  If it’s better to your ears and in your system, who cares??? My question is, why do you feel you need numbers to tell you it’s better?

I just want someone to publicly agree with this absurd claim so I and all rational audiophiles can have a good laugh. I don’t need “big boy audio ears”. I just need a good nose to sniff out this utter BS.

No, you need to bring out your big-boy audio ears and make a big-boy decision for yourself. If you wanna use your nose, feel free, but just being able to trust your own ears and make a decision for yourself is what it’s all about. And, as I said before, there’s no better area other than cables to be able to do this. When you call this utter BS it makes me think again you’d be much more comfortable on ASR where they can tell you absolutely by numbers what sounds better. Yeesh

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I just want someone to publicly agree with this absurd claim so I and all rational audiophiles can have a good laugh. I don’t need “big boy audio ears”. I just need a good nose to sniff out this utter BS.

@jrimer
OK then… I agree.

However a lot of people that have systems that are a few steps up from mine tend to be into cables and power conditioners.
(Maybe I have just been lucky?)

The other factor is that some equipment may have more “sturdy” power supplies and are immune to cables.

A good amp for instance, should be converting the AC into DC and filling large capacitor banks for the energy needed to push out the current (voltage) between the incoming AC ripples.

Ignoring the ground, one should be able to monitor the voltage of the internal power supply while playing some known content… like with a DAC that does ADC.
And then show that cable-A and cable-B have an impact upon the rail voltage, or do not have an impact. (One would need a voltage divider in there.)

I have not seen that done, but that would be a way to convince myself that something is different.

If we hold the manufacturer to supply such info then we might see it.
But they have enough sales from people that do not care if the difference is provable or psychological to really be motivated to provide proof of their claims.

Those manufacturers have enough of a loyal following that will do a “Joan of Arc” fight for them, that it is a bit pointless to get too wrapped up in it (At least for me personally.)

That gear may actually work, but I am disinclined to try it as my system sounds good enough, and I’ll save the funds for things that may work, or that I like the looks of… YMMV.

Who gives one great God dam….

@soix  Nina Simone… 😎

@holmz Heh heh.  

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