Joeyboynj,
I did not lose interest at all. Why should I? How much of a gamble is it to try a power cord that has been universally acclaimed? Not much, IMO. I gambled and I won -- like the vast majority of others who have "gambled" on HiDiamond cables.
I only trust -- inside or outside the audio business -- to the extent that Ronald Reagan expressed: "Trust but verify." I trust my own experience and my own judgment. In the case of audio, I also trust my own ears. My ears have never let me down with HiDiamond cables. I have had both good and bad experiences with SR equipment.
You got an upgrade on your new SR cables? I didn't know they had an upgrade program Please provide the details. I thought they only had an "up-trade" program. Up-trade is not at all the same as upgrade. With the former you lose a substantial part of your investment. But with the latter you do not. If SR had an upgrade program for their Powercell I would not have had to take a huge haircut when I sold mine recently. If you wait long enough the Powercell you bought last year and may want to sell this year or next year may have no resale value at all.
This is the kind of think that irks me so much. A good quality amp or a pre-amp or a DAC or a transport or an isolation transformer or a power regenerator can retain a lot of its original value and, if sold off, can fetch a reasonable price even after many years.
But a power conditioner that sees one iteration after the next loses most of its value eventually -- and is eventually seen as not living up to the marketing hype that accompanied its purchase. Each iteration is accompanied with more superlative superlatives -- and each version eventually becomes redundant. It is not easy to reconcile the two halves of this coin
I did not lose interest at all. Why should I? How much of a gamble is it to try a power cord that has been universally acclaimed? Not much, IMO. I gambled and I won -- like the vast majority of others who have "gambled" on HiDiamond cables.
I only trust -- inside or outside the audio business -- to the extent that Ronald Reagan expressed: "Trust but verify." I trust my own experience and my own judgment. In the case of audio, I also trust my own ears. My ears have never let me down with HiDiamond cables. I have had both good and bad experiences with SR equipment.
You got an upgrade on your new SR cables? I didn't know they had an upgrade program Please provide the details. I thought they only had an "up-trade" program. Up-trade is not at all the same as upgrade. With the former you lose a substantial part of your investment. But with the latter you do not. If SR had an upgrade program for their Powercell I would not have had to take a huge haircut when I sold mine recently. If you wait long enough the Powercell you bought last year and may want to sell this year or next year may have no resale value at all.
This is the kind of think that irks me so much. A good quality amp or a pre-amp or a DAC or a transport or an isolation transformer or a power regenerator can retain a lot of its original value and, if sold off, can fetch a reasonable price even after many years.
But a power conditioner that sees one iteration after the next loses most of its value eventually -- and is eventually seen as not living up to the marketing hype that accompanied its purchase. Each iteration is accompanied with more superlative superlatives -- and each version eventually becomes redundant. It is not easy to reconcile the two halves of this coin