Dream system - but no aftermarket power cords

Dlcockrum, I love the ability to look through others' posts on Audiogon, it is very telling, and can reveal when someone posts something ignorant, and baseless.

First of all, I post very little on cords, because I think they are snake oil in general, especially on return for $$$. But sometimes it's just too easy and fun to actually answer some of the ludicris posts asking which power cord has the biggest soundstage? LOL, that's just too much fun when someone asks that. Although this hobby is really subjective, some things really are just too crazy to leave alone.

Looking through your posts, you comment more on cords, power cords in general, than anything else. It seems you are obsessed with them, and that's fine, good for you. I on the other hand talk quite a bit about real equipment. You know, the stuff that turns power from the transformers into music, that's called equipment. Changing out that equipment can really affect the sound more than anything else; You should try it.

Also, since you don't post your system on here how are we to take you seriously when you comment on anything? Do you own or have you ever tried any of the cords you obsess about? I can't tell.

Sorry, I have to get back to "trolling", sorry I think your obsession is pointless, if you bought some new equipment, maybe a preamp, turntable or amp, you would probably find you get more bang for your buck than mess with a cord that brings electrons to a tramsformer.

Good luck.

Macdadtexas,

You can find my system here:

http://cgi.audioasylum.com/systems/9214.html

I believe you will find my equipment credentials to be in order.

In direct opposition to your view of continuing to trade/upgrade equipment (and therefore never optimizing any of it AS A SYSTEM), I feel that once you get a rig of equipment/speakers that pleases you, it is best to focus remaining funds on improving cabling/power/acoustic treatment/stands/tweaks etc to bring out its full potential AS A SYSTEM. Thus, as you have observed, my posts are focused on that pursuit.

You may not recall, but I also live in the Houston area and even once invited you over to hear my system but you were unable to make it. Offer still open.

In the meanwhile, give the sarcasm and unresponsive posts a rest, huh?

That's someone's system on Audio Asylum, not here on Audiogon, I have no idea's whose that is, or why they would put a link to a competing site on here. That seems rather rude.

Do you hate sarcasm, or just cry when someone disagrees with you? Also, are you going to admit after looking through the postings on here that I not only don't "troll" for your precious power cord posts, but I seldom answer any of them, especially because I think they are baseless.

I have answered 18 posts on "Cables" out of greater than threads (with only a few of them 'dis'cussing power cables. That's a very small percentage, especially compared to your 33 posts on cables (pretty much all discussing power cables) out of only a little over one hundred. So actully, you are the one trolling power cables to pimp them.

Your acusation is baseless, not well thought out, and sounds very petty.

Also, it is VERY bad form to post a link to a competing website. If you have a system, post it here.

Macdadtexas,

I have provided my system for your review (must have blown your mind based on your irrational assertions above).

I have invited you to my home TWICE to hear my system. You declined the first invite and totally ignored the second one. Yet, you have taken time to map the demographics of my post history. Very telling and troubling, to say the least.

Seek professional help and go away.

There will be no end to cable debates. Someone once challenged me to a $10,000 bet on whether or not I could hear a difference in power cords. The problem was that the system they were providing was not mine and their system was full of switches. The point being is that you only need to be able to tell if cabling makes a difference in your own system. If it doesn't then be thankful that you have saved a lot of money. I wish this was the case with me. I really wanted standard stock cords to be the end but that didn't happen. I realized I was in trouble when I installed dedicated lines and an Oyaide R1 outlet. Once I heard the "hash" in my system substantially diminish I knew there was something more to just electron flow through the system. Both my dad and brother retired from the local power company so skepticism ran deep. They both have told me that electricity is not as simple as just electrons flowing through cable and flowing is not a good term to describe electricity. It is very forceful and violent like a jackhammer and wants to escape the cable. They have seen friends die from electricity without actually grabbing the cable. Static electricity in the air at the time caused the connection between an arm and cable and sucked a limb into the 480v cable like a magnet. This is from not paying attention to safe practices at the time. Tenticles comes to mind here. When you can hear electricity going through cabling and it scares you to be around it then you know it is an unconrollable force. As a matter of fact, when you clamp down tight on high voltages the sound and vibration of the cable does change from a loud buzz to a less vibrant buzz. If a wire comes a little loose from a transformer the transformer can become unstable and really get loud. Strand jumping comes to mind as well as arching. Are we just dealing with this on a smaller scale to where our ears can pick up on this through speakers? I know that there are properties of electricity that can be measured but I also feel that there are things within the violent flow that we can't see or measure. How would you measure the amount of arching or strand jumping? Or how much rfi is actually being absorbed into the flow? Does magnetic interference affect quality of sound and who determines what the quality consists of? There is too much going on regarding electricity force that nobody will ever be able to prove that soemthing is happening inside the wire or not. IMHO I don't think it is a matter of just electrons moving from point to point. This is to easy to say about something that is so violent! If you ever want to feel what it is like to be a jackhammer try holding onto 120v then tell us how much static, rfi, emi you sensed at the time.