Why Power Cables Affect Sound


I just bought a new CD player and was underwhelmed with it compared to my cheaper, lower quality CD player. That’s when it hit me that my cheaper CD player is using an upgraded power cable. When I put an upgraded power cable on my new CD player, the sound was instantly transformed: the treble was tamed, the music was more dynamic and lifelike, and overall more musical. 

This got me thinking as to how in the world a power cable can affect sound. I want to hear all of your ideas. Here’s one of my ideas:

I have heard from many sources that a good power cable is made of multiple gauge conductors from large gauge to small gauge. The electrons in a power cable are like a train with each electron acting as a train car. When a treble note is played, for example, the small gauge wires can react quickly because that “train” has much less mass than a large gauge conductor. If you only had one large gauge conductor, you would need to accelerate a very large train for a small, quick treble note, and this leads to poor dynamics. A similar analogy might be water in a pipe. A small pipe can react much quicker to higher frequencies than a large pipe due to the decreased mass/momentum of the water in the pipe. 

That’s one of my ideas. Now I want to hear your thoughts and have a general discussion of why power cables matter. 

If you don’t think power cables matter at all, please refrain from derailing the conversation with antagonism. There a time and place for that but not in this thread please. 
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kosst_amojan1,860 posts12-17-2018 9:21pm@geoffkait

Good. So you agree that the electrons are moving and photons are the byproduct like I said.

>>>>Electromagnetic signals (photons) could not propagate through space where there are no electrons if your statement was true.

mrdecibel

Again, congratulations on never having suffered perceptual bias when listening to a sound system. Something of a miracle!

Are you sure you haven’t fallen in to just another form of dogmatism, in this case, an almost perfect confidence in your own perception?

Anyway...enjoy your cables. When they finish breaking in....;-)
If I want an explanation about how things really work is a forum with an almost subjective field of interest  the right place to ask such questions?
For entertainment purposes for sure and also for psychological purposes if that’s your field of intrest. I have of course entered the study group myself when adding something to this tread. 

Who has a science degree is this field? Who has done scientific recearch on this particular subject? Who became an Google copy and paste expert on the subject? Who is self though? 
Who though that the other was wrong, incomplete or almost right but made a small mistake about a electron , proton , quark or whatever particle or discribed how the travel , flow , behave at what speed and seriously tried to help , correct of convince the other? 

The topic though me nothing that had anything to do with this question.  But it was entertaining. 

If you hear or think that you hear an improvement and it makes you happy and either rational or emotional you can afford why do you need an explanation? 
If placebo’s make me feel good than placebos are good for me. 
If you hear a deference with a powercord (I have tested many to say that I hear differences) then you expiriance problably what many of us do. Others don’t. Great!  

I think that believers and non believers are both right but please can some one tell me who has the right explanation for this question? 

Mayby a top 10 list with a majority vote for the most right on top? 




Hi 31

I don’t put stock in what anyone says here except for the music forums. What I do put stock in are the folks who use my product every day, and all over the world. The feedback I get and referencing I do with them is priceless. It’s like having a thousand sets of ears and it’s not opinion (ego) it’s reality, and it’s constant. Having a listening family is a lot different than opinion jousting. I have a lot of friends who are members here and read, but do little posting. Some of my friends who did start posting decided it wasn’t for them (better things to do like listen). Other friends of mine think most of the guys who post here are jerks and or very insecure folks.

Anyway, I just try to be up front with listeners and enjoy when they visit with me away from the pages here. So my answer to "If I want an explanation about how things really work" I wouldn’t come here to get enlightened :) entertained maybe, enlightened nah, making listening friendships that you can mingle with away from the forum itself not bad. As for me it's been a great place to reunite with old clients and friends.

Michael Green

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