Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords?

thecarpathian

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12-26-2024 at 09:47am 

"It’s also great for paranormal investigations, detecting EMF changes linked to ghostly activity."

Wonder if it can detect the Ghost of Christmas Past..
 

only if it lives inside your amp’s power supply. 

@audphile1 

Thanks for sharing the EMF device link. Good recommendation but I don’t think many of us have the luxury to space out our components. At best, we can try to isolate the worst offenders. I watched the video and honestly shocked to see the reading from microwave. I just placed an order off Amazon, it will be interesting to see which component of mine needs the most isolation.

In the light of seeing attacks from the streaming community for playing CD and the Delta Sigma bullies for asking about NOS, I’m okay with @jasonbourne71

I discovered recently that if you say “gullible” slowly enough, it sounds like “cable”.    
 

Perhaps if Jason 71 had put it this way; “It’s possible but, if there is a difference it will be many orders of magnitude smaller than spending an equivalent amount of money on upgrading your speakers” people might not be so rude to him. 
 

There is a genuine role amongst the “audiophile” community for scepticism. Otherwise we are all vulnerable to snake oil pedlars.
 

The only way to know the answer to this question would be to do a double crossover randomised control trial and apply a statistical process to determine whether the results are likely to be due to chance, or not. 
 

I’ve been into audio since 1969.  The acuity of my hearing is not what it was. But the credo I used in choosing components back when my hearing was very good, was never to pay more for something that I couldn’t immediately appreciate as an improvement.  I never regretted a single purchase based on this approach. 
 

My hearing is deteriorating, but my appreciation of music and the pleasure it brings is still increasing.  This is likely to happen to all of you, too, as the decades advance. 
 

In the meantime, I hope you all can appreciate the music.  

Objectivists say - theory says it doesn't matter, so it can't matter. Empiricists say, observation tells me it does matter. Technically informed empiricists then attempt to find out why, at a theoretical level, it does matter. The latter is how the state of knowledge advances and is all the better for that, in my opinion.