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In Reply to: You must be a *great* dancer, Richard . . . posted by markrohr on February 14, 2007 at 15:23:16:
Power cords have no effect on the DC music cicuits, or on room acoustics.
Differences" are entirely in your imagination.
An active imagination has nothing to do with "evaluation".
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Audiophiles are perfectly capable of making judgments about the sound of things without regard to the bias they may or may not incur from positive reviews, manufacturers' reputations, internet postings, the thickness of the faceplates, or the price tags. That audiophiles routinely overcome such biases to the extent that they often prefer less "impressive" products. And that audiophiles sometimes hear no difference at all.Except for power cords.
Real audiophiles always claim to hear a difference.If they don't, they will be called Tin Ears and told they have a Mid-Fi stereo. You could look it up.
It's not possible to know something about a product and then be completely neutral during an audition.
Maybe a Vulcan from Star Trek could do that, but not humans.
The fact that you are auditioning a component already suggests you walked in with a positive opinion about it.
Just asking a salesman to hear a specific component is a statement about yourself as an audiophile, and that statement means you want the component to sound good.
But the opinion you have AFTER the audition may have absolutely very little to do with the positive opinion you came in with.
That's because so many auditions are not done at home -- the room and every other component will be different when listening in a store, or at a friend's house.
Therefore any opinion about a component auditioned outside of your home ... is almost meaningless.
True if the component was a speaker, the mid-range and treble output in a store would be similar to what would be heard at home.
But the bass would be quite different in a different room.
Any audition of an AC cord is meaningless because AC cords have no effect on the amplitude response and timing of the sound waves we hear.
They could only affect hum and RFI ... if those problems had been audible (rare).
Auditioning an A/C cable in an audio store is the silliest thing I've ever heard about audio.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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