Get Power Conditioner -downgrade my expensive PCs?

"sometimes you're paying for legitimate technology to actually filter out some of your A/C problems" - and what else are you filtering?

If you're considering paying big $ for cords, work on your AC delivery into the house first.

The ones who usually make the biggest noises about AC cords are the same ones who recoil in horror regarding dbt - golden ears and clothesless emperors just seem to go together.

How else could a 2 year old epiphany that cost $4500 and was a soundstaging wonder now be selling for less than $400? Has AC changed so much? Have power cords advanced so much? Please. A fool and his money.... - you know the verse.

Get clean AC into the house first, then a decent conditioner or regenerator. If a cord mkes that much difference then you have crappy power supplies in your components.

How else could a 2 year old epiphany that cost $4500 and was a soundstaging wonder now be selling for less than $400?
Snofun3  (System | Threads | Answers)

I understand the point you are making with this example, but it's an extreme example. $4500 Electraglide power cords never had a street price of more than about $800 as far as I know. Anyone with any shopping savvy knew this. The $4500 retail price was a joke. With that in mind, the present asking price of $400 is a 50% discount from the street price of a new Electraglide power cord, and it's in keeping with the normal discount of used gear...especially wire.

Which further illustrates my point about the advantage of buying used.

tvad:

your prior post is the best articulated statement that i have ever read of the psycho-pathology of audiogoners (myself included). Bravo!

Thanks all

Snofun - I have agree with you that if are dealing with clean A/C to start, and using a neutral PC, and still not satisfied - than you probably have a crappy PC, or somewhat insatiable...

-The question is then can you get a neutral PC for 100.00?
and
-Do some swear by expensive PCs because they help mask some other fundamental problem?

I've had 2000$ PCs before until one day I realized I had no clothes...

You can easily get a neutral PC for $100. You can get a neutral PC for under $10.

My experience tells me expensive PCs eliminate/filter hash and lower the noise floor. Most use a combination of wire geometry, shielding and filtering to accomplish this. Some are neutral and others are not.