I agree Whart, I would like Rower's input on what electronic gear he has measured or owns that doesn't benefit from a better power conditioner or power cord or fuse for that matter.It must be perfect and cost a lot more than what I have used over the years.
It's been my experience that wallplugging is fine.
Run a dedicated line and it's better,how come?
Why did the properly designed power stage react to the dedicated line,shouldn't there be no difference?My bad power supplies?
Going back to different kinds of wire and their sonic signature,way back when, I found out that bypassing the fuse in some speakers and amps with a chunk of wire was better than the fuse.Thanks to Peter Aczel and the "old" Audio Critic mag.
The music tightened up and was less diffuse sounding.
And different types of wire produced different audible results, which blindfolded or not, you could hear the differences between stranded and solid core.
It was differences in treble (more clear with solid core)and bass ( more full bodied with stranded),take your pick, vanilla or chocolate.
Both choices are right or wrong, but what is perfect?
If the power supplies were perfect, then there should have been no distinctions between a stock fuse, a solid core DIY fuse or a stranded wire fuse.I guess I've spent big bucks on junk, such as Martin Logan CLS, Maggies, Classe, VTL, Levinson, Quads, and more.
Perhaps my choice of gear isn't as perfect as Rower's and I don't have the equipment to spec out my choices.I just have my ears,but then that's what I use to listen with.I guess all the folks who like the sound of the above gear and also bought it was because the gear sounded good to their ears and most never measured the stuff.
I guess we were duped by all we read about that stuff,because if it lets us hear differences in cables and power cords then it must be inferior stuff.
If there can be no differences in using a better power cord on these products, according to Rower, and yet some hear differnces, then surely the quality of the gear is suspect,am I correct?
My ears tell me what I like and what I don't like and if there is an improvement or not they'll let me know if a purchase is warranted or not.But they maybe lieing to me, or so I've been told.
All of audio is a lie, or an illusion of reality,just as there is no neutral or musical benchmark, all is up to the individual's ability to discerne subtle shadings and all is open to interpretation and experience with live and recorded music, and playback systems of all sripes.
Your neutral is my coloured,my difference is your no difference.
The most "neutral",( insert component) has to be compared to what came before it and will be compared to what comes after it, so how can neutral ever be defined.It's always in flux.
If my power supply is inferior because it let's me hear the differences between wires,then I want more of that inferiority.If a solid core wire takes me from "neutral" to more "neutral" than a stranded wire did,then I guess that what my eyes percieve as physical differences in construction, jives with what my ears are telling me.
If twisting wires compared to untwisted looks different and sounds different due to noise cancellation in the twisted wires,is my power supply not up to par?
I've been a musician for over 45 years and I've had to learn how to pick the music apart and differentiate pitch and tone, so perhaps I have trained my ears to pick up sound differences in my hifi gear that may not be as discernable to others as they are to myself.
I wonder if Rower's sound is different late at night than it is during peak demand hours?
Now that would be something worthy of measuring.
And it would be interesting to know if the measurements synced with what he was hearing.
Hearing no difference but measuring differences can mean two things,that his power supplies are indeed immune to power conditions or that he is just unable to hear differences.
A blindman could never know if the emperor was clothed or not, and the deaf man will never hear the ring of the register.
I am glad that I can hear the register ring,and until I can't, I'll keep it ringing for all the right reasons.
It's been my experience that wallplugging is fine.
Run a dedicated line and it's better,how come?
Why did the properly designed power stage react to the dedicated line,shouldn't there be no difference?My bad power supplies?
Going back to different kinds of wire and their sonic signature,way back when, I found out that bypassing the fuse in some speakers and amps with a chunk of wire was better than the fuse.Thanks to Peter Aczel and the "old" Audio Critic mag.
The music tightened up and was less diffuse sounding.
And different types of wire produced different audible results, which blindfolded or not, you could hear the differences between stranded and solid core.
It was differences in treble (more clear with solid core)and bass ( more full bodied with stranded),take your pick, vanilla or chocolate.
Both choices are right or wrong, but what is perfect?
If the power supplies were perfect, then there should have been no distinctions between a stock fuse, a solid core DIY fuse or a stranded wire fuse.I guess I've spent big bucks on junk, such as Martin Logan CLS, Maggies, Classe, VTL, Levinson, Quads, and more.
Perhaps my choice of gear isn't as perfect as Rower's and I don't have the equipment to spec out my choices.I just have my ears,but then that's what I use to listen with.I guess all the folks who like the sound of the above gear and also bought it was because the gear sounded good to their ears and most never measured the stuff.
I guess we were duped by all we read about that stuff,because if it lets us hear differences in cables and power cords then it must be inferior stuff.
If there can be no differences in using a better power cord on these products, according to Rower, and yet some hear differnces, then surely the quality of the gear is suspect,am I correct?
My ears tell me what I like and what I don't like and if there is an improvement or not they'll let me know if a purchase is warranted or not.But they maybe lieing to me, or so I've been told.
All of audio is a lie, or an illusion of reality,just as there is no neutral or musical benchmark, all is up to the individual's ability to discerne subtle shadings and all is open to interpretation and experience with live and recorded music, and playback systems of all sripes.
Your neutral is my coloured,my difference is your no difference.
The most "neutral",( insert component) has to be compared to what came before it and will be compared to what comes after it, so how can neutral ever be defined.It's always in flux.
If my power supply is inferior because it let's me hear the differences between wires,then I want more of that inferiority.If a solid core wire takes me from "neutral" to more "neutral" than a stranded wire did,then I guess that what my eyes percieve as physical differences in construction, jives with what my ears are telling me.
If twisting wires compared to untwisted looks different and sounds different due to noise cancellation in the twisted wires,is my power supply not up to par?
I've been a musician for over 45 years and I've had to learn how to pick the music apart and differentiate pitch and tone, so perhaps I have trained my ears to pick up sound differences in my hifi gear that may not be as discernable to others as they are to myself.
I wonder if Rower's sound is different late at night than it is during peak demand hours?
Now that would be something worthy of measuring.
And it would be interesting to know if the measurements synced with what he was hearing.
Hearing no difference but measuring differences can mean two things,that his power supplies are indeed immune to power conditions or that he is just unable to hear differences.
A blindman could never know if the emperor was clothed or not, and the deaf man will never hear the ring of the register.
I am glad that I can hear the register ring,and until I can't, I'll keep it ringing for all the right reasons.