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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Of course the last few feet can filter and smooth the power.
Flat-Earth crowd , most of whom seem to be rightwingnuts , hate truth with a passion .and reality even more .

About as intelligent as not using a water -filter because it doesn't reach back to the river .
I attacked no one personally, an observational comment .

I asked an Admiral once, Chief of Naval Aviation, why they  haunted the  top engineering universities for pilot recruits .
 He replied that engineers were perfect for the job, they had the smarts for  it but lacked the imagination to image themselves plowing  into rear of flight deck on night landings .

I knew him well and he had had a few so I think he was telling the truth as he saw it .
 
On a serious note, science of the brain has exploded in last decade .

The human brain above all seeks to maintain a balance, having to change your mind about long held views/ knowledge can upset that balance which
can cause health problems, mental and physical . that can even result in
death .
Ever seen a hard-core racist change his mind through rational discourse ?
Neither has anyone else .
The brain is fully capable of and often does , make someone who learned and firmly believes that something can not make a difference UNABLE to hear,see or grasp that difference should it exist , if it knows balance will be upset .
It cares nothing about science.
People are not usually being bull-headed just to be same, most often
they are just following orders from headquarters .

No debate, some can hear change, those who resist change in general don't hear it in audio either .
Could just say ignorance though naive realism does roll easy off the tongue .
Giving a personal case in point .
I was once badly wounded and in a ward with others in same situation , seeing others suffering was very traumatic .
I lost  ALL sense of touch, taste, smell and vision was reduced to a very narrow tunnel, maybe 5 degrees . I had NO idea that any of that was happening though psychically I was doing well .
Brain was doing its thing .
 After few weeks all returned ,Docs seemed cynical, Nurses didn't they saw it all the time . I did have to learn to write  again , maybe brain blew a fuse on that  one .

Liberal Arts?

" The person who does not understand history remains forever a child ".
   Cicero
Wisdom from a strike-out master.
No need for any defense when nonoise  at bat .
Your hearing is only as good as the best acoustic music you ever heard in a venue with excellent acoustics .
If you want it to be as good as  possible make that the Concertgebau  Hall in  Amsterdam .
MN was the best place in the USA to hunt big trophy white-tale deer .
 1 degree , as in ONE degree, increase in temp has allowed a thousand fold
increase in deer-ticks that has made it a  worth your life event to even go into the woods !

Herd numbers have taken a nose-dive because young fawns can not survive the bites of thousands of ticks from moment of birth.
Mother nature is a fine tuned machine , a change in anything can change everything .  Creation is sacred , only a fool thinks otherwise .