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Power cord review section?
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Hi, Welcome to ASR....
No - because power cords (like most other cables) are repeatedly found to make no difference whatsoever.
If you go to the reveiw index, you should be able to find any tests that have been done on power cables.
DonR
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https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?pages/Reviews/ sort by device type.
Oh, they get reviewed all right. So far, none have actually offered any value except as decorations.
Search results for query: power cord
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I always use Belden, for the industrial sound it gives to all my music 
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All amplifier, all DAC all cords sounds the same??
All cords do, unless they're catching on fire etc.
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Where's the amplifier and DAC thing coming from?
All cords yes. Speaker cables need to be a minimum guage/cross sectional area (Ie low enough resistance). After that they will not have a sound.
Interconnects, USB cables, toslink etc. sound the same as long as they work at all. Obviously if you have a ground noise issue with unbalanced cables, then this can be eliminated with balanced cables.
Amps and dacs - if they are well designed such that they have sufficiently low noise and distortion - and flat frequency response : will (you've guessed it) not have a sound. Badly measuring devices may be distinguishable.
But why that question?
Yeah, that deserves an answer. Color me cynical...
I was gonna tell everybody to take a drink! ...But remembered this is the wrong Audio Site for my drinking game.
In the spirit of a good time, perhaps we should all take a drink anyway everytime somebody starts a new Cable, Interconnect or Power Cord thread!
In the spirit of a good time, perhaps we should all take a drink anyway everytime somebody starts a new Cable, Interconnect or Power Cord thread!
Are you a liver doctor? Good for business!I was gonna tell everybody to take a drink! ...But remembered this is the wrong Audio Site for my drinking game.
In the spirit of a good time, perhaps we should all take a drink anyway everytime somebody starts a new Cable, Interconnect or Power Cord thread!
syn08
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C'mon. If this isn't bait... did he even show the secret ASR handshake?
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Since money isn't really a problem for me, I have decide to give GR Research B24 AC cable a try.
Oh btw, try swapping different ac cables on your power amp (not DAC!) most likely you will hear different sound. Or even change the wall power socket. I am outa here good luck.
Oh btw, try swapping different ac cables on your power amp (not DAC!) most likely you will hear different sound. Or even change the wall power socket. I am outa here good luck.
MAB
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Welcome, you have asked a potentially loaded question for your first post! I hope we all survive it!
There is no section because of all of the cables, power cables are the most unimportant. And by that I mean no importance at all except that you have them isntsalled so your equipment has power.
OK, so that this isn't a one-way street, please answer some questions.
Why do you think power cables sound different?
Also, are you expanding your question beyond power cables to interconnect and speaker cables, and DACs? If so, what characteristics do you think will cause a change in sound? Like, do you think two speaker cables of the same length and resistivity all other things being equal will sound different?
I’m new here. Where is the astrology section?
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