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| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? For anyone casually stumbling onto this particular thread such as I did the other day, or the OP following up on his long-ago request for advice, it must be very interesting to note that "sides" or "camps" have been formed and that the members of ... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? " How much money is that for someone like you who writes, thinks and challenges like that of a third or fourth grader it is probably your entire piggy bank is it more than $100 USD? Please explain to us the exact amount of resources that you are w... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? OH look! I've found the answer to my question! http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=2228So Geoff has a history of making false or un-provable claims AND of claiming to be an audio professional. That would get a person banned in most forums due to confli... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? I got through describing why blind tests are unreliable for audio just last week. You should have been here. But I’ll help you out. The reason why negative results for blind tests don’t mean anything for audio is because too many things can go wro... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Uh, you just repeated yourself again. Yup, 🍑🍔🍔 Hey Geoff....you wouldn't happen to sell audio tweaks, would you? I think that if so, it should disqualify you here as it's an obvious conflict of interest when a user asks a forum for objective ad... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? The placebo effect argument works both ways. If you're of the mind that power cables won't make a difference, you'll not hear a difference. That, and you'll point to lots of other people who fell the same way and "documented" it. In theory, su... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Repeating the same dogma over and over, even in the same paragraph, is a sure sign of....you guessed it! In your case it’s a clear sign of projection, which is a psychological coping mechanism, not a valid form of argument. The only thing that qu... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? So your claim about not being able to distinguish between power cables power cables in a blind test is based on someone else’s 14-year-old test? No. And in case you’re having trouble reading for comprehension or keeping up with the thread, that’s ... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? And I’ll keep repeating as well - go back and read what the OP asked. All of my explanations are directly and indirectly in response to that. Someone asked if expensive power cords were "snake oil" and the answer is - "It depends. If you have a pr... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? @elizabeth:That’s also known as the placebo effect. Enjoy it. It’s a free market society and you can spend your money on whatever you want. When you acquire the fortune necessary to do so, you might also reach out to your electrical utility and ha... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Selective ALL CAPS in a sentence is "emphasis" in the absense of text editing functionality. I suppose I could have said *do not* instead, but there are other platforms that interpret asterisks differently. Back on the subject, I’m glad you asked:... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? What is an "audio argument"? How does one "win" such an argument? The fact is that even companies like Shunyata struggle to demonstrate discernible measurable differences between their expensive power cables and others using sensitive test equipme... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? That makes zero sense whatsoever. Power cords DO NOT sound different in a controlled blind A/B comparison test. PERIOD. You don’t seem to understand what the placebo effect really is. BTW, power cables are not the same thing as interconnects or sp... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Here is another way to look at it. Say you have a high end 100WPC Class A/B amp. It should have shipped with a cable that its manufacturer deems acceptable to enable top performance in all possible configurations for which the amp was designed. Sa... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? No. Not necessarily. It means you’re experiencing the placebo effect. Aspergers (or any other ailment/condition) are still possible, but there is no causative or correlative relationship between that and the fact that you are hearing what you want... |