Aesthetix Calypso VS ARC Reference 3

Rwwear,

I would be the first to agree with you. If you can't hear it, then don't spend the money. But... I find the change in sound w. power cords to be more profound than some CDP or interconnect changes. But if your system is revealing you will hear a difference. Also I find most power conditioners to have much less of an audible difference than a power cord. But that can only be said in relation to my system where I live.

Be careful with absolute statements unless you are sure you know it all.

I mean no disrespect Dgad. But I am absolutely sure. What you think you hear is not what you hear. But I do believe you think you can. There are lot's of things going on inside a component that affect sound quality but the short piece of wire going from the wall to the back of the audio device cannot do so as long as it is of proper size. It defies the laws of physics. And my system is revealing enough.

I am absolutely certain Rwwear is wrong.

So who is right?

There is no possible winner here, and the debate has been driven so far into the ground that it ought to qualify as a nuclear fallout shelter.

I am convinced that we all hear differently. Some better than others. Some significantly so. Just as we all have stronger and weaker senses of touch, smell, sight and taste. We're unique biological beings, and as such our senses differ as much as our physical appearances and our internal physiologies.

I like your taste in music, Rwwear. I think we should keep the discussion there...or on the topic of this thread, because where this thread is presently headed there are no answers that will satisfy everyone.

What you think you hear is not what you hear.

I agree, the experience of hearing is not thinking. Sometimes the best listening involves no thinking at all.

Audio ergo sum,
Tim

Rwwear,
I disagree totally with you.
My friends and I have done double-blind testing between the stock power cords on my JC-1 monoblock amps, and inexpensive Signal Cable Magic power cords, and the sonic differences and/or improvements with the Signal Cable PC's are clearly audible to all 4 of us... How do you explain that???