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| Power Cables Oh dear .. | |
| Power Cables Yes, that's how it works. I'll provide a link. If an amplifier is correctly designed, "sagging capacitors" amounts to a cable marketing blurb. If you think any substantial amount of juice for your volume control is coming directly from the cable y... | |
| Power Cables Great. Now that you've written all of that, explain to us how this makes a single iota of difference when in an amplifier's linear power supply the current through the mains is only directly in use 5 to 10% of the time since the power supply syste... | |
| Power Cables Sincere apologies for keeping this one going, but so many posters in cable threads are talking entirely through something other than their mouth when they make claims about "demanding" audio transients requiring something from a power cable when a... | |
| Power Cables The standard power cable provided by the maunfacturer is not capable of responding to the immense demands of tranient signals. More advanced designs allow the conveyance of enough power in a timely manner such that an amp can perform up to its ful... | |
| $500 USB cable jkbtn OP01-30-2017 4:11pmWhy would some people spend that much money on a USB cable when they already know what it does?I hoped someone could explain to me in a manner that doesn't require a professional degree in electromagnetism. Magical thinkin... | |
| $500 USB cable treebeard102-04-2017 11:15amTo me 1s and 0s are just that, but @geoffkait makes a very good point about just being representations of 1s and 0s. That tells me it’s about the source, not the cable. Personally, I think one must consider the resoluti... | |
| $500 USB cable The salient reason why blind testing cables doesn't produce results favorable to the expensive cables is that people can't hear any appreciable difference. If you can't tell the difference then why do people buy them? Confirmation bias and gear G.... | |
| $500 USB cable Cable sales hinge on confirmation bias and gear G.A.S. I've done blind testing with interconnects and speaker cables. I failed miserably, and I'm a musician. Then I examined the science. Cables are snake oil. There's nothing else to be said. | |
| $500 USB cable To those saying spend more than five or ten dollars on a USB cable ... when you bought that aftermarket mains cable, did you R&R the wall socket? What about the wire in the wall? Or in the breaker box or from the house to the pole? Why not? An... | |
| Opinions on PMC DB1i & DB1 GOLD PMC's ratings are generally ambitious, no doubt. For example, the Twenty.21 are rated 87, but someone, somewhere tested them out closer to 84. I'd go with somewhere in between; they require current to open up. But open up they do. Dirty little sec... | |
| Opinions on PMC DB1i & DB1 GOLD I think people spewing ASCII should listen to the stuff they dismiss and not rely on mathematics (or other reviews) to influence what ultimately sounds good to many people. | |
| Opinions on PMC DB1i & DB1 GOLD I'm listening to DB1S+ on the desktop as I type this and I enjoy them immensely. I also own PMC Twenty.21I have no experience with lower wattage tube amps (I run Exposure amps), but if the price is reasonable on the golds, I would not hesitate to ... | |
| The best separates between $2500-3000. Moving on from the original Rogue Sphinx Intg.. Music. Buy more music. And not from self-appointed pimps like Spotify. | |
| DAC or CD Player. Help! I still and will always contend that expensive boutique cables are 100% snake oil. Some of the priciest manufacturers of this stuff hedge their claims 10 ways to Tuesday while struggling to make a case for their HUGE markups. Take Zu Audio. I'll d... |