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Ever hear a power cable make a huge difference?

I just had to share this. I went to synergistic research the other day to get some cables re-terminated. I saw some power cords on the floor and decided to ask about them. Ted, said they were all prototypes, would I like to listen. He brought me into the demo room and played some great music. He switched out the preamp power cord for one of the prototypes and man was it noticably better. Then, he left and came back into the room with a big smile on his face. He pulled a cable from the back that I swear was just recently built. He confirmed that no one had listened to it yet. He put the new power cable on the preamp and...................NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!! It was unbelieveable what a difference I heard. I could not believe how much bigger the sound stage grew, better focus, detail, and faster tighter bass. I had him switch the PC in and out because I just could not believe what I heard. Then he said "lets make it better." He brought it to his Tesla machine and gave it a quantum tunneling. He put it back in the system and to my surprise it was un believably better then what I had just heard. It now made the whole system easily sound 3 times as good. I just could not believe my ears. Then I had to know, how much could I get this cable for. I would think at least $2000 if not $3000. Nope, this will probably go for $500. Well Ted, sign me up for a few of those bad boys.
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douglas_schroeder
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Power cable make a huge difference? Yes. Easily.
douglas_schroeder
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Maybe cars should come without tires, too, so people can personalize the performance. ;) Then, you only have to spend an additional $1,500-3,000 to get the vehicle to work.

If equipment came without cables, what would all the "cable atheists" do? It would kill them to be forced to support the Evil Cable Empire!

douglas_schroeder
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Rwwear, I find your comment personally insulting. I am tempted to respond in kind, but I won't as it does nothing to promote good will or advance our hobby. If you've got a grievance with faith, keep it to yourself! Your comment has the effect of poisoning the atmosphere here.
douglas_schroeder
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Rwwear, I MADE A JOKE and you took the opportunity to turn it into a serious condemnation of religion, something that the majority of people in the world consider valuable and personal! Can't see that? Can't you see that your "opinion" was off topic and inapropriate?

Since you're so into freedom of expression of personal opinion regarding things metaphysical, I'll share mine. I'll assume that since you deride "religion" you are an atheist or agnostic - likely a Darwinist. My opinion is that it is the epitomy of intellectual foolishness to adhere to Neo-Darwinism, which posits that a process (DNA mutations) which LOSES INFORMATION at every mutation without exception(there has never been any mutation which has added information; please check the facts first before retorting)can bindly, purposely, accidentally construct a succession of increasingly information-rich biological organisms far more complex than anthing man has ever made. So, I'll refer to it as the Evil Darwinistic Pseudo-Scientific Empire. You a member of the Darwinian religion? If so, then maybe you'll understand my why your comment was offensive.



douglas_schroeder
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Stltains, You're quite right. I'm willing to lay off the rhetoric, to let go of the argument. This is a very interesting thread, and I also hope it continues to reveal some good experiences people have had using cables.
douglas_schroeder
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Been gone to China and Vietnam for two weeks...Back for a while now.
I have almost been dying to say something ahead of time, but had to bite my tongue. While this thread has been developing, I had been finishing up a review of power cabling from MIT that addresses this issue of power cords directly. I put the very question of efficacy of power cords to the test. The review is now on Dagogo.com for general edification.
I don't know Psacanli, who just posted about his experience with an MIT Magnum AC2, but I refer in my article to the Oracle AC2 on my Rega Saturn and I also had a "Wow!" experience. The Telsa cables seem very interesting!
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