O.K. Steve, if it's not the power supply and it's effect on the audio signals in our amp. or source (which you did not mention) and the cords, conditioners, etc. are not effecting anything in the signal, than how do you explain the added noise, lost of base definition, lack of sound stage detail and added edginess that occurs when I switch out my cords and conditioner to standard cords from the wall? The difference is not subtle and it is way beyond subtle, this is like a clock radio vs. stereo system. There is with no doubt, and laughably so a difference, how do we explain this? If there is no measurable difference as claimed, then it must have to do with something we are failing to measure. What? I think for anyone to stand and claim there is no difference has to be not willing to except something unknown to them and I don't see you as that person.
If I took your sprayer analogy and went with it, I would think there is a chance the flow would be smoother, more even if the pressure tank was next to the nozzle, thus no resistance to the flow. If my hypothesis is correct then I would assume a wider hose could provide a more stable pressure, thus a more even flow. If the casing is butyl rubber with a potential for small leakage of air vs. a vinyl tube the flow would be that much more stable. By screening the compressor intake and controlling it's environment I believe we will see a more predictable performance. This of course has not been proven by me and I doubt by you either. So here we sit, you claim no possible difference, I claim possible. Neither of us have any more than our own experience and education to prove our theory, but they both make sense. The point is not to begin a thread on air compressor and there effect on paint sprayers, it was and is to draw a comparison as you tried to do.
Now you have told us, often I might add that it is not possible that the power cords, wiring, conditioners, etc. can have an effect because your scope shows no difference. O.K. I'll give you that a scope will not show a difference, but I'm still claiming better sound, as I do with my sprayer giving a better surface. If you measure the compressor there is no difference, and I would bet the pressure at the hose end is the same under measurement. So is the better finish psychological, or have we yet to conduct the proper test? For us both to stop there seems childish at best. If we both really cared, would we not want to continue working together to find out if there is or is not a physical difference. So from my perspective, today we sit like two kids in a sand box, I'm right and your wrong, and visa versa. We can chose to go home and complain about the other kid, and more than likely not play together again, or we could stop and try to figure out what is going on. The claim of audible difference is not just psychological, and science has a way to prove it. To continue it will require you to accept that I hear a tangible, physical, measurable difference and that your interested in helping the rest of us figure out why. So do you want to play, or go home? J.D.
If I took your sprayer analogy and went with it, I would think there is a chance the flow would be smoother, more even if the pressure tank was next to the nozzle, thus no resistance to the flow. If my hypothesis is correct then I would assume a wider hose could provide a more stable pressure, thus a more even flow. If the casing is butyl rubber with a potential for small leakage of air vs. a vinyl tube the flow would be that much more stable. By screening the compressor intake and controlling it's environment I believe we will see a more predictable performance. This of course has not been proven by me and I doubt by you either. So here we sit, you claim no possible difference, I claim possible. Neither of us have any more than our own experience and education to prove our theory, but they both make sense. The point is not to begin a thread on air compressor and there effect on paint sprayers, it was and is to draw a comparison as you tried to do.
Now you have told us, often I might add that it is not possible that the power cords, wiring, conditioners, etc. can have an effect because your scope shows no difference. O.K. I'll give you that a scope will not show a difference, but I'm still claiming better sound, as I do with my sprayer giving a better surface. If you measure the compressor there is no difference, and I would bet the pressure at the hose end is the same under measurement. So is the better finish psychological, or have we yet to conduct the proper test? For us both to stop there seems childish at best. If we both really cared, would we not want to continue working together to find out if there is or is not a physical difference. So from my perspective, today we sit like two kids in a sand box, I'm right and your wrong, and visa versa. We can chose to go home and complain about the other kid, and more than likely not play together again, or we could stop and try to figure out what is going on. The claim of audible difference is not just psychological, and science has a way to prove it. To continue it will require you to accept that I hear a tangible, physical, measurable difference and that your interested in helping the rest of us figure out why. So do you want to play, or go home? J.D.