dragon1952
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Blind Power Cord Test & results Eldartford....I'm glad you caught the sarcasm anyway. It's sometimes hard to convey without smiley faces. The one that rolls his eyes works pretty well. :^QUOTEIf I believe, based on listening and science, that some audio tweek doesn't, and cannot... | |
Blind Power Cord Test & results QUOTEDon't argue that it exists...tell me how it works.QUOTEExactly...it doesn't count unless you can explain it! Kind of like why we're all here. We aren't, really, unless you can explain it. Again, that's why scientists get the big bucks. Until ... | |
Blind Power Cord Test & results QUOTESo, people who want to convince me that exotic power cords affect audio equipment, need to come up with some rational explanation as to how this might happenQUOTERight on! I mean, heaven forbid we should have to listen ourselves and make our ... | |
Need Good Advice - Speaker Cable Attempting to distinguish differences during a relatively short term experiment is absolutely beside the point and irrelevant. Who cares? That's where these tests fail to be pertinent. Preferences are the point and cannot ever be made in that type... | |
Need Good Advice - Speaker Cable QUOTEDragon1952, I haven't heard anyone here advocate DBTs.QUOTEI was responding to the post 3 above mine....maybe you missed it. And I'm genuinely sorry that you've never heard a 'huge improvement' before. I hope you will someday. BTW, I don't kn... | |
Need Good Advice - Speaker Cable QUOTEAre you guys kidding us? Could you really distinguish any of the above mentioned speaker cables in a double blind test from 12 - 14 AWG zip cord?QUOTEDouble blind, schmuble blind! I get so tired of hearing this statement. After starting with ... | |
Blind Power Cord Test & results QUOTEIt may be that our eyes and our brand perceptions and all of our other expectations contribute more to what we hear than we realize or care to admitQUOTEGenerally speaking, of course. Not everyone is taken in by glitz and hype but unfortunate... | |
Blind Power Cord Test & results I believe my first post offered some input. And my motive was to chastise you for your anality :^ | |
Blind Power Cord Test & results QUOTESorry for my rant here, but you guys kill me with the lack of links. The directions on how to post a link is found directly under the data input area and is labeled blah, blah, blaQUOTEI know.....cut and paste is just soooo hard and soooo ben... | |
Comment on this system. QUOTE: Spectral is spelled wrong.QUOTEI just love these personal spell checkers! These people never assume that the word was fat-fingered or some other typo. They always assume you don't know the proper spelling and they do. The epitome of arrogance! | |
Blind Power Cord Test & results I have not experimented with power cords myself, however, what the conclusions determined is that "We simply failed to prove that differences can be detected to a statistically significant degree using a blind ABX protocol"I have always been skept... | |
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NAD 270/NAD C350 Well using the C350 as a pre and the C270 as an amp isn't exactly separates. If you paired a C160 with the C270 you might be right, but I would think a C370 would be pretty much equal to a C350 and a C270, considering the price differential. | |
NAD 270/NAD C350 You could sell your C350 and buy a C370 and save a lot of money and get pretty much the same result. I've seen the C370's go for $350. | |
Life expectancy of Interconnects & Speaker Cable? Anybody that spent 5k on cables could undoubtably be convinced 5 years later that there was something infinitely better then for a tad more. |