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| Why Power Cables Affect Sound nonoiseWhy do reasonable questions upset you?Why do you think it’s perfectly fine that you declare to the crowd that you KNOW your position is correct and that you know you exhibit no bias effect when evaluating cables. Yet if your claim is at all... | |
| Spatials = Done for now! Wonderful to read that you are so happy with your new purchase.It is wise to have chosen the phrase “done for NOW.”No one could trust an audiophile who said “just got new speakers and I’ll be satisfied for life with them!” ;-) | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound nonoiseThe only scientific evidence I can steer you to is empirically derived: People who go to psychics also have "empirically derived" conclusions.They experienced the fact the psychic simply knew things about them that the purported psychic "c... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound @mrdecibelI realize you've deemed me not worth your time.But just in case you are feeling generous...my time and experience in the field has allowed me to train myself to hear very minute differences amongst all related items in audio. Could you ... | |
| Thiel Owners rosami,I have extensive experience with the 3.7 and 2.7 and the older big CS6.I am betting that the thinness you heard was very likely in the set up of the speakers. As with many speakers, I found I could dial in the size and richness of vocal an... | |
| Thiel Owners I was reading an old Audio Critic magazine pdf recently. For those that aren’t familiar, it was run by notoriously critical and cranky editor Peter Aczel who was devoted to repudiating "audiophile myths" via appeal to sound engineering and science... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound n80That struck me as funny. Sounds like something from a Monty Python skit. "If she floats she is a witch and we will burn her. If she sinks and drowns she's not a witch."So if I hear a difference then you cable guys are right. If I don't hear ... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound @cleedsEven though the test wasn’t scientific, you can’t accurately say that the cable "failed" the test.Obviously I was speaking colloquially. But the point expressed is certainly correct: The cable "failed the test" in the sense that I could not... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound geoffkait wrote:"Psychological bias cannot be used to explain all positive results." ......"But to claim it explains all controversial or mysterious audio phenomena is pretty absurd."That poor, poor strawman geoff, won’t you ever stop beating it? ... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound mrdecibelAgain, 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 y... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound mrdecibel,So prof, it seems that you did not hear differences in the pcs you tried. If you did, or thought you did, you doubted yourself as a listener, and claim placedo effect. That is a problem right there, I detailed the situation earlier in ... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound djones51,I agree; nothing wrong with the placebo effect! (And that btw is not presuming everyone here is just experiencing something like the placebo effect!).I have no problem with the idea I may be indulging in perceptual biases myself. I cert... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound mrdecibelI have tried a variety of Shunyata cables. I have friends who have loaned me other cables over the years (mostly...if I happen to need a power cable). I believe Audioquest was among them.Not used on my CJs of course, but on CD players (... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound mrdecibelI have borrowed and tested various higher end AC cables.And I hugely enjoy listening to my system, as I am in the background right now - some great new vinyl I picked up.We can all fully enjoy music, and our stereo systems, while having d... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound @mrdecibelAs a member of the professional audio community, I was always able to get " loaners ", and never imagined anything I heard. None of that psychobabble bs, that what I was hearing is all in my head. That’s amazing! I guess all the scientif... |