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A few people are stating that its nothing more then placebo effect for these fancy power cables having any effect on sound quality while others say there is definately a noticable difference. It may not be a night and day difference but who would refuse any improvement regardless of said cost of cable.
Raising my hand.
Thirty years in the hobby, twenty in post production sound. Power cables, if they are constructed reasonably well, make no difference to the sound. The cable that came with your amp sounds exactly the same as the one that costs thousands.
As a newbie just putting together your first system, I can give you plenty of advice on how to get great sound. But it takes thinking things through. You can't just buy great sound with money. The most expensive equipment in the world, applied poorly will sound like crap. Likewise, an inexpensive system that has been put together with thought and skill will sound great.
That "scientific test" has been torn apart numerous times. Will you ever stop citing it?
Originally Posted by bigshot
He has to own the company. No employer would allow that sort of unprofessionalism unless it was them.
See ya
Steve
As far as I know, he doesn't. I do recall him posting about getting one of their power cables for free to review, elsewhere, then a few months later his location was changed from Ottawa to Barrhead and he became VD's rep here.
Your analysis is spot on. Again, I am not debating whether or not cables have different sound signatures, etc. However, companies are expected to have competent and reliable data to substantiate their advertising claims, and VD has not yet supplied such information.
The broader question, of course, is how many cable companies would be able to provide adequate substantiation for their claims? My guess is not a lot. How they avoid challenges or enforcement actions is a mystery to me.
2) Qualifications of of the Supervisor (not an EE), no offence but does this guy have sufficient expertise to supervise this project ?
If the researchers don't know why they can't capture a 10 KHz square wave with a sound card, I don't think they are qualified to publish any technical report.
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