Certain segments of the "audiophile" community do a lot of damage to their own credibility with their wild hyperbole and absolutist declarations. As someone pointed out earlier in this thread, when changing a power cord results in a "tremendous" difference one has to suspect either a defect in the first power cord or that the listener just might be engaging in a bit of overly dramatized embellishment.
I'm in the category that acknowledges there are often audible differences between certain components. However, if good quality equipment is involved, those differences generally tend toward subtle as opposed to blazingly overt. In fact, I can move my head a couple of inches and notice a difference in how my system sounds. I have changed phase relationships between the two speakers, I have changed the mix of direct to reverberant sound, and probably impacted the frequency balance and other factors. However, in spite of that I have no urge to run out and buy a head immobilizer to keep my listening position at some optimal constant. However, when I have listened to different power cords and interconnects in the past, if I hear anything, it is at the same level of significance as moving my head. So is the difference due to the cables or my inability to duplicate a precise head position? (And note, we haven't even got to the psychosomatic issues yet.) I certainly have no quarrel with anyone who wants to spend their money on expensive cables or anything else in the pursuit of their hobby. However, they probably should remember two things. First there is a lot of disagreement even between audiophiles (that often results in diametrically opposing choices.) It shouldn't surprise anyone if other people have different opinions. Second, the more rabid audiophiles would probably find they'd get a bit more respect if they could drop the really egregious hyperbole back a notch or two. It is not hard to grant someone a license to hear what they believe they hear, but when the language to describe a change of cables takes on a florid prose that seems lifted from the sex scene of a dime novel, it is tough duty for the rest of us to bite our lip and suppress the chance to snicker. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33547 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
