Power cord? Why?

I beg to differ. Powercords do change the sound of any system. Or, am I the only one that hear a difference in every powercord I've plugged into my system? (That would be an argument for me having golden ears. However, I can't hear the difference between different isolation tweaks under my cd player.)

S23chang, I don't know about all the EE stuff, but higher and lower gauge cables do sound different and has different effects on different types of component ie digital front end and amps.

One anomaly I found is I like higher gauge on digital and modest gauge on amps.

I think he meant cables that are extruded with the continuous casting methodology such as Coincidence, Harmonic Tech, Acoustic Zen among others.

I am sort of surprised at the results that your evaluation group came up with since the constant casting process only considers and improves on the crystallization process that metals go through during its cooling process and not the amount of fractures it does or does not reduce. In fact, from the X-ray photos I've seen on some Asian websites that market CC, the metals actually already have numerous fractures in them. It is merely the minimalization of stray crystallizations that seems to benefit the sonic attributes of the metal in question since these stray crystals allegedly distort the signal transfer process. However, I am not EE so who knows.

all experiences can be broken down into apriori fragments or so kant would say. and, as descartes would say, apriori is self evident. Thus, would the essence of experience be lost if there is no self evidence?

A talk from continuous casting to conductor fracture to inter/inner cable contamination... this thread is fractured more like it.

Sean, you didn't have to state the obvious = P