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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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garebear
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I turn 50 in a couple of weeks and this is reminding me of what I will be going through with my doctor......C'mon..I agree with Audphilel.....Ted Denney has lost some credibilty here in my opinion. Just make a good cable for all of us to enjoy !!!!! I still can't sit down after that
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tboooe
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brutusab, any idea when these power cables will be released?
rlawry
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I had tried a number of power cords and I was able to hear differences, but I never heard one make what I would term a "big" difference. Until I heard a new type of power cord that uses bundles of carbon nanotubes from Intuitive Design. The differences I heard in soundstaging, bass, and detail were pretty amazing, like that of a component change. There is a review of ID's Chimera carbon nanotube cables here on the Gon.
french_fries
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i need to know what preamp was being used in these demonstrations; i don't know much about the guts inside of
a high-end component, but i've read here and there that, inside of a well-thought out component, there
is alot of pre-treatment of the current coming into the box before it is utilized by the circuitry responsible for the the signal and noise rejection before it is passed on to the output jacks. i have some aftermarket pc's myself, but after using a decent power conditioner for source components i hear little advantages other than the nicely built connectors they come with. plus, none of the stores i frequent have ever bothered to set up demonstrations using power cords either. they sell them, but with the caveat that it's up to you to see if you can hear a difference or not in your own home.
this would indicate to me that they're avoiding any arguments over the lack of dramatic results that might come out of such a demonstration. plus the fact that an electrician has already customized the room outlets to a fair (perhaps fanatical) degree.
bar81
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Isn't the fact that a power cable is making a "huge difference" indicative of issues in the rest of the system it's being used in, particularly where it's changing the sound of such system (as opposed to lowering the noise floor, etc.)?
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