Synergistic Research Galileo SX Power cord. (Opinions on sound quality appreciated).

jasonbourne52- so do you take a custom hose with you when you go to add gasoline to your car? In the belief that it will improve gas mileage? That is exactly what the belief in an "improved" AC cord is: A DELUSION!

No one here does that. But you keep on using retard metaphors like that and we might just start to think you are dumb enough to try it.

I am gonna explain some things now, and in reading it if you think wow who is dumb enough not to know this stuff well the answer apparently is: YOU!

With gasoline the gas itself is the store of energy. Combined with air under pressure and ignited in the combustion chamber then and only then do chemical reactions generate the energy to move the car. It does not matter where the gas came from or how it was stored or delivered. All that matters is it is mixed with air and ignited. So please don’t try your garden hose trick, it will not work.

With electricity everything is completely different. Electrical energy is not created by some magical interactions within the component as you seem to think. Diode rectifiers convert AC to DC that is stored in storage caps. But these caps store only a very small amount, enough to run for only a short amount of time. That is not their true function. What they really do is smooth out rectifier diode ripple in order to serve as a stable source of pure power. So you see with electricity it is very much the case that the power is being used almost exactly the same as it is being delivered, and so the "hose" does matter, very much indeed.

Everyone here knows what I just said. They may not be able to explain it so clearly but they all know it. The fact you know so little about it, and assume everyone else here is equally ignorant, tells us more about you than anything else.

You have in a fairly short amount of time established yourself as a source of much inanity. You are doing this on the internet, connected to it same as all of us, so you are out of excuses. It is not easy learning to not be a dolt. But you could try. Please. For your own sake. Try.

That is all.

I had Atmosphere Level III Euphoria and when using the pigtail to my ground there was only a very small improvement. A little less grain and grunge, not much. What I mean, I hear more improvement in the first 5 minutes playing a record. 

This was grounding it to my star ground. My system is kind of unusual with 240V stepped down to 120V and the whole system being on a ground rod driven into the ground under the house just below the system. Ted is real adamant there should be a huge improvement with the pigtail, but equally insistent it must be grounded to a regular house outlet and not a power conditioner. Sounds like that is what you did, and even so the pigtail is not that big an improvement? Grounded to what? Are you using one of his Grounding Blocks?

When you guys change these things, pigtail or whatever, how long do you leave everything undisturbed before drawing these impressions? Because I find everything up in this level takes some good amount of time to really settle in. Even moving a wire to plug/unplug, even if you try hard not to move any more than necessary, it still disturbs things enough to be at least a little while settling back in. 

This will no doubt make the PC deniers heads explode, but I figured this out quite by accident many years ago. It is, as they say, "a thing".

This indeed is the question. None of this stuff can really be compared any other way than by, uh, comparison. Because "the ultimate comparison" with live acoustic music, does not apply because then you have to consider the entire recording chain. The only thing that makes sense to me is to try and compare the differences when changing from one to another. In doing this it comes down to just what you said, soundstage, timbre, balance, impact....

In my system power cords sometimes makes a difference, but sometimes not.

Been there, done that. Had a guy years ago, had a whole electronics test bench in his basement. He was a variant on the snake-oil theme. He would admit some wires were better, but not much, and insisted they could all be made at home for a tiny fraction anyway. One time he calls up all excited, comes over so I can hear his fabulous wire that he compared and cannot hear any difference between his and the $7k wonder that he was able to somehow borrow. (He would gladly spend $500 on parts but never more than $50 on an actual power cord.)

Anyway, point is, in my system the huge difference between them was easy to hear. I mean it was obvious, night and day. He was floored. Kept saying over and over again, "They sounded just the same in my system! I really thought they were the same!"  

Now here's another point. There will be those who will use this to push the canard that this stuff is all system dependent. Hogwash. Only thing system dependent about it is if your system, or ears, aren't up to resolving the differences. Because trust me, the leopard does not magically change his spots. 

Wow that could be a Who's Who of the most aggressively ignorant posters of the last year or so. Could it be he is now jasonbourne52? After being the clown with the Ducati? Who knows? Who cares? Ignore the ignoramuses. Just ignore them. 

I have not heard the Galileo but I have a couple I'm evaluating right now and one of them is so good I can hardly even believe it. I mean yeah I know power cords are important. But a power cord so good it transforms your whole system???!