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The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance

This is a journey through real life experiences from you to everyone that cares to educate themselves. I must admit that I was not a believer in power cords and how they affect sound in your system. I from the camp that believed that the speaker provided 75% of the sound signature then your source then components but never the power cord. Until that magic day I along with another highly acclaimed AudioGoner who I will keep anatomist ran through a few cables in quite a few different systems and was "WOWED" at what I heard. That being said cable I know that I am not the only believer and that is why there are so many power cord/cable companies out there that range from $50 to 20-30 thousand dollars and above. So I like most of you have to scratch my head and ask where do I begin what brand and product and what should i really pay for it?

The purpose of this discussion to get some honest feed back on Price to Performance from you the end user to us here in the community.

Please fire away!


 


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nonoise
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Every time I come back to this thread I’m reminded of something primordial going on. It’s about dominance. Chest pounding, bush shaking dominance.

See me. Listen to me. Obey me. It’s all very authoritarian.

One can almost take the dialogue here and insert it as a closed caption on the first act of 2001, A Space Odyssey. The monolith can be the sound system and the proto-humans the debaters (too kind a word) as they fight over what they heard.

I hope you can at least enjoy the holidays.

All the best,
Nonoise
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@mahgister, it wasn't my intention to disparage you as you are one of the most sane and much needed voices around here. It's just the way things were going, which was nowhere in particular, like any other thread that made the mistake of taking on cables.

@prof,  please, don't ever think of me as someone from "on high". I've never shunned the light. Unlike the overwhelming majority on this site who are subjectivists and wish to remain anonymous so as to not incur the wrath of the objectivists, I don't mind it: I just sometimes grow weary from it.

There's much to learn from the more knowledgeable and less dogmatic here who have the patience to proffer advice without exacting subservience. To each their own, live and let live, etc.

All the best,
Nonoise
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The funny things about threads like these are the implied overlap of some rich douche paying what would be the cost of a home in a small town to those who'd pay a bit more for something better.

Conflating the two serves no real purpose, unless you recently lost an argument along similar lines.

As long as that dumb, rich, douche overpays for something that doesn't involve, say, a politician, then go with god is what I say.

All the best,
Nonoise
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