Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords?

Nothing like another cable thread to start off the new year

Most of the doubtful posters likely don’t think there is a difference in one bottle of scotch to the next. There choice for best costs 20 dollars it it is the same as a 20 000 dollar bottle...

I know I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference because I never drink scotch. And because I am too cheap and stubborn to try any scotch, I have already made up my mind there is no difference. Unless you can show me some evidence, a graph which demonstrates the difference. You’re all a bunch of scotch-fools!

This is pretty much how it goes with cable deniers, yes?

Since it is New Year’s eve might as well discuss Champagne!

All champagne is the same: the only difference is the price, the colour, and size and shape of the cover. They all function the same: drink it, absorb the alcohol, pee out the rest.

Only minion is the ones that claim a champagne makes a dang bit of difference in my stomach.

Happy New Year and champagne make no diff!

@richardbrand 

All we had to go on were tasting notes, because even the bottles had been exchanged to remove that clue. Bottom line is that I correctly identified all eight whiskies presented. 

Unless you can do that 9 times out of 10, identify the witnesses, and present a graph of the data, the flat-earthers on this thread will claim it is not scientifically rigorous enough test, and therefore you are imagining it. Then they still will state something like "confirmation bias", because it has not been proven that anybody has ears or taste buds more acute than theirs. 

Lagavulin with its signature iodine, seaweed and hospital bandage aromas.

If you are trying to get a non-drinker of scotch to try it, you are not doing a very good job. 

Johnny Walker blends malts all the time.

I don’t want to even read about blending single malts…I skipped that part of the thread…that’s just criminal…

I am old enough to remember when blending whiskies indeed was banned. I recall their was once a similar sensible law for power cables as well. Copper was copper and silver was silver, no mixing permitted. Now they are allowed to blend all sorts of metals together- blasphemy! Why did we allow them to rescind that law?

Now they have all sorts of mutts in the mix- tin plated copper, silver/copper, silver/gold, silver/gold/copper/palladium. What will they do next? use carbon and graphene? Gonna sound like shite.

They are all doing it! Shunyata, Nordost, Audioquest, and even the newer little family distilleries that have popped up over years- Snake River, Zavfino, Acoustic Zen have their own blends with their "signature" flavours. Bollocks!

I did find one with a sensible name that uses a single grain. Audio Sensibility, but I see they import their ingredients from a foreign country!

Oh well, might as well get adjusted with the changing times. Maybe there is something my palette can tolerate and find acceptable.

@thecarpathian 

Widespread whisky blending was permitted starting in 1860.

Exactly how old are you??!

Born on Feb 29 1840, so technically I have had 46 birthdays. 

@grunge1000

Spectral results--Each count was 12 hours. High resolution gamma spectroscopy using NIM’s. The NIST certified rate is 20.030 CPS for the Region of Interest (ROI). The region of interest is approximately 661.7 keV.

Results--As you can see, the filtered data is very close to the "True" count rate as per NIST certification. The filtration costs > $50,000 and cleans up the AC power before it powers the sensitive electronics. The crystal operates at - 200 degrees Celsius and is ultra sensitive to electronic noise.

Using a Nordost Power Cable made no statistically relevant difference as compared to a standard cable.

I am not sure what this means on the sonic front but if a Power Cable made NO difference on highly sensitive equipment, how could it make a difference on a CD transport.

Can you plug tubes into that thing and have it show the relevant statistical difference between a Mullard and a Telefunken?

@richardbrand 

Basically a cable sceptic but so many report benefits, they can't all be wrong.  Can they?

No, common sense says they can't. 

If you are looking for more good "blurbs on their website" including webinars, check out this company: It is the most transparent and informative cable company website I have seen, and they do everything themselves in their German factories, even test the raw copper before sending it out to be drawn in the mill. 

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