how can a line cord affect frequency response ?

MrTennis,

You don't have to buy. It's all just other members opinions.

I would not concern myself too much about it. If you were subject to being unduly influenced and swindled out of your cash, that would be completely different. You're obviously evolved far beyond that point, so now we're really concerning ourselves with the appearance of a sales pitch disguised as comments in a forum.

Truth is, we all have our favorites including yourself.

As long as were pointing fingers, I’m guilty too.

I frequently post favorably about Dali speakers, VTL amps, Purist cables and other gear that's worked for me, so in a sense I'm "selling" that gear to others regardless if I have any to offer or not.

Most of these designers, creators, manufacturers and retailers really believe in their stuff. Many have it in their own systems and think it's wonderful. So how different is that from the rest of us?

i agree in principle, but if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck.... it's a duck.

You mean power cords are pure quackery? Or your circuitous threads smell of troll quack? I'm so confused!!!!!!!

Howard, the petulant duck

i think you misuderstood what i said.

if a manufacturer is obviously trying to sell something and some one treis to spin the sale into something other than a sale, you be the judge.

are line cords quackery ? if you hear a difference its not quckery. if you don't, you be the judge.

by the way boa2, what is a troll, do you mean churl ?

hi albertporter:
the difference is obvious. if a mnufacturer sells he gains monetarily, if you attempt to persuade, or sell, as you say, what do you gain ? certainly, there is no monetary advantage to you if someone buys a product you recommend.

Saw a couple posts about correctly designed power supplies. Certainly correctly designed PSUs are important and contribute significantly to good sound but unless I'm mistaken, most PSUs have nothing except maybe a snubber before the primary. This does nothing for the poor quality AC that comes out of the wall and it's relationship to the primary.

There are a myriad of line conditioners that effectively address some of the issues of poor AC quality and improve sound to one degree or another. But, as I see, there are other issues left un-attended.

I prefer AC product designs that address what I see as un-attended issues and, a specifically designed power cord can do that. In my experience, when these other issues are addressed, other AC gremlins become significantly less relevant and line conditioners become more of a preference than a necessity. We use no line conditioners here and I'll assert that our system here is probably on of the most musical and life like presentations you'll experience. It has it's limitations like any other system but.... And yes, we use all our AC, cabling and loudspeaker products to help accomplish what our system does. This all goes to the original topic and question of this thread. Forgive me if you don't like how I'm willing to answer.

To appease Mrt, other AC cords I have respect for come from Prana, PAD, VD, and Micro-Omega. Though there are some commonalities (as well as vast differences) between these products and what we're doing, I suspect the materials and applications are for different reasons and so the design goals are optimized differently.

So Mrt, are you ready to buy?

Quack, Quack!
Robert
RSAD