Hearing is believing?........power cables.......


For anyone who is skeptical about the difference a high quality power cord can make in your high quality audio system........try it.......hearing is believing. About 10 years ago when I bought my first "entry level" hifi system (B&K amp/preamp, Canton speakers) my audio advisor dropped off a Tara Labs Prism power cord. He said just try it for a week and if you don't think it makes a difference just return it. I, like most unfamiliar with high quality cables, was skeptical.......how could a cable 1 meter long from the wall to my equipment make a difference? I put it on the power amp and yes I could definitely tell there was a more defined bass and overall clearer soundscape. I'm a musicians, so I figured maybe the "non audiophile" can't hear the difference. So my brother-in-law who is a bricklayer came over and we did a blind listening test. I randomly switched the Tara, sometimes trying to fool him......told him I switched but didn't........he could tell every time I used the Tara! So I was convinced that it was "wishful thinking on my part or particularly sensitive ears. If you don't think a great power cable can make a difference........take the challenge. Try one for a week and see (hear) for yourself!
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Thank you Todd,
Reason can be in short supply despite that it's staring one in the face.
Yes, the skies and water are nothing more than a vast open sewer and nothing we do can have any effect. Anyone who believes that still drags their knuckles when they ambulate.

All the best,
Nonoise


The consensus of 98% of climate scientists who's specialty is climate studies, the DOD, the Pentagon, every commercial insurance company, and people with both feet on the ground, for starters.


Hey Schubert, which one is Richard Farnsworth and Wilford Brimley?
You or me?😀
I can never see myself as Robert Redford.
The only side effects of a blind test is the uncertainty of what you just heard due to the short nature of the listening. All the harping of expectation bias said to exist in hearing what one actually does hear in normal listening, are present in A/B testing. It's been exposed as a cheap parlor trick a long time ago and yet, derp.

All the best,
Nonoise
It's become a bit of a stretch when we, who do hear a difference, have to go to great lengths to mollify those who don't. 

I get it. Taking the high road and all but....
I think, therefore I am.
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

Lately, on these forums:
I deny, therefore I am.
Hey, there's this big audio show coming soon in Los Angeles and I'd love to see someone who thinks PCs don't make a difference to stand on their soapbox and let loose with their beliefs, to openly debate it with some of the better makers of PCs out there. I need a good laugh.

All the best,
Nonoise
I didn't attack anyone.
I just passed on a compliment.
To equate what I did with a right wing tactic is just a strawman argument: a red herring to what I actually did, which was to address the point that a good PC does make a difference.

All the best,
Nonoise
"About as intelligent as not using a water filter because to it doesn't reach back to the river."

Perfect. Just perfect.

All the best,
Nonoise