I'm thinking of upgrading my PCs, but am wondering what the sweat spot is as far as price. The price point after which, you see diminishing returns. for example a $1000 is certainly not twice as good as a $500 cable.
Aftermarket cord can only introduce extra colors to audio with excessive reactance parameters brought into the power supply(that's why some of us can hear differences). Most of manufacturers advise not to spend money and use the stock one for this particular reason, but they don't realize that audiophiles don't like accuracy and like to shape sound with wires(extremely inefficient by performance and economically according to the today's market prices). For this purpose for shaping the sound the best device is EQ or some basic tone control board on your preamp.
$2000 power cord actually has no more than total of $50 material + work. The rest is marketting and brain shower. What is diminishing return of such product?
Al, Jmc, When I had to pay $168 for Hydrocortizone+Acetic Acid 10mg bottle, I tend to believe that same clap is goin' on with pharmaceutical industry. This bottle is approximately bellow a buck worth.
Wildoats, you will also have to block my ears, so they won't hear Ferrari:-). That also doesn't mean that guy who bought Ferrari was smart or one who bought Toyota was stupid. In most of the cases, trust me, it's vice versa.
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