John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense"

That someone was me, and it was a joke. Your reply accusing me of misquoting you is mighty convenient, don't you think. At first you say "I agree that a good power cord is essential..." Does this not lead the average reader of your post to believe you are talking about something other than a stock power cord? Otherwise, you might have well said: "I believe a power cord is essential"--which of course makes about as much sense as, well, no sense at all.

Or, did you truly mean to try and suggest at the outset that the stock power cord is what you were talking about? If so, why didn't you just say that in the first place? Something like "I believe the stock cord is good enough, and it is essential." Or maybe, "stock cords are essential, but they are also good too." Or how about, "I believe a good stock cord is essential."

If you truly meant to say what you suggest, then please excuse me, I do not ever like to be accused of misquoting anybody and I offer my deepest apologies.

This is kind of like the debate that some reviewers had with EE's when digital first came out. The reviewers claimed that there were very audible differences between digital signals. Of course, the EE's stated "digital is digital", etc... because it all basically measured the same. Or so they thought.

Of course, J. Peter Moncrieff was one of the "golden ears" that said that he could hear "darker background, greater dynamic range, sharper detail, etc".... when comparing one CD player to another. Even though the frequency response was linear and every form of distortion was low, there were OBVIOUS differences in how they sounded. The funny thing is that he went on to document via electrical measurements that what he was saying and hearing WAS true. While one player had deeper nulls and higher peaks, faster rise and fall times, sharper images with less distortion, etc... the other was clearly not as fast or clean. Moncrieff even went so far as to publish photographs of waveforms taken via his o'scope for direct comparison to demonstrate that "not so subtle" and "audible differences" DID exist and ARE verifiable. That is, IF you knew how to do the proper tests AND interpret the data that you collected.

There is an analogy that i use on a daily basis that seems to fit here: Just because you have a hammer and a saw, that doesn't make you a carpenter. The same can be said for EE's, ME's, technicians, etc... Just because you have a piece of paper called a degree or a license, years of experience, etc... does NOT mean that you know or have seen it all. As such, the best people in ANY field are the ones that think they know very little and are always looking for explanations of how & why. NOT the people that say "that's impossible".

Like i said before, just because we can't "measure it" today doesn't mean that the differences didn't exist yesterday. I can think what i want, but that doesn't make it "fact" or mean that others are wrong for not agreeing with me. It just means that it is my opinion and only worth the value of what others put in it. As such, neither Abe nor John Dunlavy nor i are "right". We simply have our opinions. Put your faith in what your ears, eyes and heart tell you. God didn't give us all of these senses and the amount of intelligence that he did for us to throw it away because we don't know exactly how something works. Sean
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How can you say it does not make a difference if you have not tried it? You should have a local shop that would be willing to let you try one out for free. You have nothing to loose. Depending of your system it might not matter at all.

OK, you were joking but....
I don't see the problem with my simple statement, "I agree that a good power cord is essential..." Is there something in that simple statement that you do not understand? I didn't say "a good stock power cord is essential". I didn't say "a good mega-buck power cord is essential".

If you choose to read more into it be my guest but I fail to see your point except to confuse the topic of this thread. Read the rest of the sentence then the entire paragraph so you can understand the context in which I made my statement.

A simple question to all....

Do you believe an AC power cord should be used as a tone control?