Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords?

In my youth, when I could only afford 20 for a bottle of scotch, I thought they all tasted about the same. Later in life I graduated to single malts 5 to 10 times more costly. Each year, we stopped blind tasting wine and did a whisky tasting. All we had to go on were tasting notes, because even the bottles had been exchanged to remove that clue. Bottom line is that I correctly identified all eight whiskies presented. One was 16-year old Lagavulin with its signature iodine, seaweed and hospital bandage aromas.

We blended the left-overs. Lagavulin dominated the blend ... and it is now my favourite drop. As a treat, my partner bought me a bottle, but sadly it was only 8 years old and a pale shadow of the older stuff.

I believe that, unlike wine and even beer, whisky does not change once it is bottled. I can see no reason why a single malt cannot be improved with a little blending - I am looking at a very rare Tasmanian double malt as I type. Like hifi, a law of diminishing returns comes in until like a painting, the value is in the rarity, not the picture ...

@richardbrand , Lagavulin is my personal favorite.

Followed closely by MacAllan 18.

Mixing single-malts? Blasphemy!

@richardbrand 

All we had to go on were tasting notes, because even the bottles had been exchanged to remove that clue. Bottom line is that I correctly identified all eight whiskies presented. 

Unless you can do that 9 times out of 10, identify the witnesses, and present a graph of the data, the flat-earthers on this thread will claim it is not scientifically rigorous enough test, and therefore you are imagining it. Then they still will state something like "confirmation bias", because it has not been proven that anybody has ears or taste buds more acute than theirs. 

Lagavulin with its signature iodine, seaweed and hospital bandage aromas.

If you are trying to get a non-drinker of scotch to try it, you are not doing a very good job. 

+1 Lagavulin

@mclinnguy

The guy who organised the whisky tastings was very quietly spoken and must have had pretty good hearing. He was an SAS instructor, and his reputed specialty was to disarm a knife wielding attacker while he was unarmed AND BLINDFOLDED. He used to spend weeks living off the land in the Northern Territory, observing joint US and Australian exercises while remaining unseen.

Another attendee knew a lot about transports - he flew Hercules including the final humanitarian evacuations from Saigon. Ended up as Wing Commodore for the RAAF’s VIP fleet

But I digress ...