The nature of
memory, despite the best efforts of scientists, remains an elusive and
capricious entity. It would be difficult to follow the neurological progression
which leads one to subjective judgment. I’ve been ill, hospitalized, which has
broken the continuity in my listening for a qualitative assessment of the
Furutech AC outlets. Perhaps that is a good thing, obviating anticipatory
expectations. I will not attribute some higher level of aural performance to
the Furutech outlets; that would necessitate my concluding some mystical
transcendence resulted in changes in the ‘sound’ of my equipment. But I will
say that there is a difference in
other attributes that make up my listening experience. There is an elevated
preciseness/sharpness in what I would characterize as ‘the attack’ of notes -
more energy, thrust, silence. And
therein is what I believe is the improvement … the energy delivered to the
components that make up my system reacting to its life-blood, electricity. Music
is a non-conceptual language, beyond the range of men’s understanding. Some
try, others claim to know what a piece of music means or what it signifies. Men
only have poetic ideas of what a composer intended, no more. Likewise, I have
only an idea of what ‘changed’ with the installation of the Furutech AC
outlets; but change it did. Perhaps the electrical signal is purer causing the
spaces between notes to be more silent,
the vocalist’s breathe livelier, or
the striking of the drumhead sharper.
What I have concluded is an improvement in a manner
independent of the components themselves, or that’s what the neurological
progression leads to my subjective judgment … all the rest is silence.
