power cords

Rex,

It was asumed that most readers already knew what was meant by "miles of wiring" with regards to interconnected systems. My point was that the entire system was basically unshielded and suseptical to all kinds of radio and atmospheric bombardment. Granted, your final step-down transformer isolates you from most of it, but there's still the lines between it and your breaker box, and finally to each and every wall outlet. There is NO further isolation transformer after your breaker box, so anything that gets picked up along the way, gets dumped into each and every outlet. You adding a 3-6 foot "audiophile" cord at the wall outlet, can do absolutely nothing to improve upon the footage of non-audiophile "Romex" wiring within the sheetrock walls. What kind of magic do you think is taking place within the wall outlet? Each and every one of those three contacts heads right back to the breaker box, via unshielded non-audiophile wiring and breakers, right out to the stepdown transformer. No shielding, filtering, decoupling, isolation techniques, nothing. Explain to me how ANY 3-6 powercord technology can create some kind of magic between the outlet and equipment, with regards to the entire house wiring. Instead of placebo, get your hands on some quality test equipment which will prove my argument. And believe me, it's NOT just my opinion. Anyone with background in substantial electronics knows better as well.

metro04 everyone has been through all these arguements. You are simply wrong. It doesn't matter at all what happens for the first 100 miles of cable, the last six feet or sixty feet make a cost effective difference in the quality of the sound or the picture. Everyone that has tried it agrees.

Maybe you can write up a little thesis about your experience and show the rest of us how our EXPERIENCE is wrong.

I know serveral electrical engineers and electricians who argued the theory the whole time we discussed but have replaced their cables, outlets and PCs since hearing the difference.

Classic defense! There is science behind everything that happens, for which you've yet to explain how these so-called hi-tech cables perform. Common sense says you're wrong. I can't even begin to speculate on the amount of blind panel testing done where so-called "seasoned" audiophiles fail to tell the differences. I'm sure psychology majors have a clinical term for this kind of blind belief.

Metro04, give it up! You will never convince those who have 'heard the difference', when 'seeing is NOT believing'.

There is science behind everything that happens

Science is nothing more than today's best estimate, and it is often proven wrong. That's why it's called common sense, until the point that it is rendered uncommon by those scientists who know there is far more to learn than what is already "known". If you can't hear a difference in power cords, good for you. It doesn't change the fact that there is a vast difference between them.