Is it all in my head??

The problem reminds me of an old guy who lived in this building. He was 88 Still driving his car. Top speed for him was 15 mph! Jeez you should have tried to watch him park.. Half an hour. or more.    
Anyway, he was complaining the car was broken. The brakes did not work right. He paid to have them fixed. He said no good.Then he decided to BUY A NEW CAR. Which totally made everything way worse in every imaginable way. So what was the problem? HIM. He could NOT accept HE was having trouble feeling anything in his feet. It HAD to be the car. Even telling him point blank.. Did not matter. ten minutes later it was the car...Sad. Some folks cannot get past the ego.        
Like the Carly Simon song: You’re So Vain,(you think this song is about you.)     
So what was all that for???                               
Just saying some folks cannot believe the World is not exactly as they believe. Just impossible. Cannot be any other way than what they believe. So clearly, to them, anyone saying otherwise HAS to be a lunatic. Or confused, or at least lying.

prof says
" Friends, including fellow audiophiles have described the sensation of hearing my systems as “spooky real” and are generally amazed.

BTW, this didn’t take any aftermarket power cables or expensive high end speaker cables/interconnects to achieve :)"

It sounds like you have a great system prof. Do you use any power conditioning or audio grade outlets? 

elizabeth wrote:

—-“ So what was the problem? HIM. He could NOT accept HE was having trouble feeling anything in his feet. It HAD to be the car. Even telling him point blank.. Did not matter. ten minutes later it was the car...Sad. Some folks cannot get past the ego. “

Totally agree.  Some people’s ego seems so wedded to their subjective infallibility that they have trouble even imagining, let alone admitting, they COULD be wrong.

Those of is who proceed on the well justified assumption we could be wrong, find this very strange.  Finding out how we could be wrong, or if we are wrong, is a way of being open to learning.  I just find it odd that so many seem closed to this.

boxer12

No audio grade outlets.  Until very recently no power conditioning at all. However I added some new equipment not long ago, which finally got me to redressing my wiring.   I found that a couple of Furman PST-8 SMP EVS power bars quite useful, especially their shape which makes the outlets more easily reachable for me.  Don’t mind whatever isolation/protection they may give the system as well.   Didn’t hear any change to my system after they went in.

 Exactly! And those of us who question our/and others ability to hear the differences between power cords are not the ones on the ego trip as we are admitting that we are susceptible to bias. 
@elizabeth.  I’m confused, I thought you insisted you can always hear the difference between power cords?? Your story reads as if you are saying people who claim they can hear the difference are on a massive ego trip because they cannot admit their senses may be fallible?