Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords?

@grunge1000

Spectral results--Each count was 12 hours. High resolution gamma spectroscopy using NIM’s. The NIST certified rate is 20.030 CPS for the Region of Interest (ROI). The region of interest is approximately 661.7 keV.

Results--As you can see, the filtered data is very close to the "True" count rate as per NIST certification. The filtration costs > $50,000 and cleans up the AC power before it powers the sensitive electronics. The crystal operates at - 200 degrees Celsius and is ultra sensitive to electronic noise.

Using a Nordost Power Cable made no statistically relevant difference as compared to a standard cable.

I am not sure what this means on the sonic front but if a Power Cable made NO difference on highly sensitive equipment, how could it make a difference on a CD transport.

Can you plug tubes into that thing and have it show the relevant statistical difference between a Mullard and a Telefunken?

@thecarpathian from that post what are those facts that you speak of?

If I read and understood the conducted measurements correctly…

1. the AC filtration system costing > $50,000 was utilized to clean the AC power and the measurements were taken post this stage

2. the measurements were taken in isolation

3. the real world audio system never uses a $50,000 plus AC filtration and there is never a single component running in isolation (unless it is an all in one integrated sitting on a dedicated circuit which is possible but I don’t think I’ve seen too many systems set up thiscway. If you look at the big picture which doesn’t include a $50,000 AC conditioner and includes a number of components including digital and some with SMPS and all of them are pooping back into that AC line but hey we have that $50,000 AC filter don’t we…nah we don’t

So please what facts were provided…tell me

@grunge1000 you stated you don’t know how this translates to a sonic change if any…I agree. No way to tell. Measuring the wrong way, measuring all the wrong things…

@richardbrand 

Basically a cable sceptic but so many report benefits, they can't all be wrong.  Can they?

No, common sense says they can't. 

If you are looking for more good "blurbs on their website" including webinars, check out this company: It is the most transparent and informative cable company website I have seen, and they do everything themselves in their German factories, even test the raw copper before sending it out to be drawn in the mill. 

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@audphile1 

I think you are reading the results wrong. The cable tests were unfiltered (No AC filtration). I used the filtered and unfiltered tests to prove that AC filtration is measurable (Albeit very small but measurable difference). The PC didn't make any difference in this counting system, and it would have if there was some sort of signal degradation due to an "inferior" PC. 

@grunge1000 ok that’s fine and even so…

Still, the measurements were performed in isolation, not within an ecosystem of components, routers, SMPs polluting the line, digital streamers, computers, whatever else we have in our systems that creates that unique environment that no one takes into account when performing measurements on cables and even components. In addition, the dataset is way too small to have anything conclusive as outcome. Measure it in silo all you want. Doesn’t translate to a real life use case. And doesn’t mean anything when we’re talking sound - tonality, imaging, soundstage, etc. As I mentioned earlier, how do you measure that?

To add, I literally had just spent almost two days auditioning a new (to me) power cable in my system. I had high expectations for it. It sounded worse than any of the 3 power cords I currently own. Drastically different and in a very bad way as far as my system synergy is concerned. Despite costing 3x as much as my cheapest power cable, it was beat by the latter. So it’s going back.
However, another power cord I have on loan sounds wonderful on DAC and sucks on streamer and is only so so on my amp. I know, you don’t have to believe me, I could be a nut case or just some dude with imagination who makes crap up. But the audible difference between these cables is right in front of me in my system that I’m extremely familiar with. I yanked the new cable out. That’s how bad of a match it is here. I’m sure even my dog heard the difference but she just can’t verbally confirm it. Lol