A complete DIY success story ! - Page 3  

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Originally Posted by downsize 

 

OK ... No problem then. I'll happily respond to this.

When you listen to live acoustic music or voice in a room, you will notice the sound comes from a single source in that room. If that person is not up flat against a wall, the sound waves we perceive as music not only come from the instrument or mouth and travel straight to our ears, but it also travels backwards around the vocalist or instrument, to the back wall, as well as sideways, up, and down ... where the sound travels until it hits the side walls, ceiling, or floor. The sound waves then bounce and reflect numerous times until they dissipate to inaudibility.  THIS creates the sense of air and acoustic space around the musician or vocalist we hear. When a system or component is able to realistically re-create this effect, it is called open and also lends to the sense of transparency.

If you strike a cymbal or bell, or any instrument for that matter, the sound waves travel and reflect, creating a sense of air around the original strike, or sound created by the instrument or voice.  Once again, the level we can perceive this in a recording, on a given system, as compared to real life is what we call air around the sounds we hear.

 

Now to be clear on the subject, when I put a new component or wire in my system, I do NOT sit there and listen for any particular audible sound trait ..... But if by chance the system suddenly has a new realism level, IN ANY ASPECT of the sound, then it is easily noticible  in a system you listen to daily. And this is what I was commenting on in my original thread ... How much more realistic the system suddenly sounded after a few days of placing the new cable in my system. It's a real treat when this happens for me, because I am constantly making all kinds of DIY audio gear and cables that DO NOT sound good, and may even sound bad. So when a new project ends up sounding better than even expected ......

I guess I understand the type of qualities you are describing, and I notice them to a large degree already in my current system, without any fancy power cables. So I guess I don't need anything more than my current setup.

Somehow, I think the cost of your "DIY" power cable is probably more an order of magnitude more expensive than a typical DIYer would pay for a power cable, let a lone any cable. ;) How much did you pay for that uber cable?

Got a source for the cable or the company that's willing to do the custom job for you?

For $1000, I can go to my favorite club (as far as jazz venues are concerned) for $5 apiece around 200 times and enjoy live music. And if I enjoy live music around 8x more than listening to any setup I've ever heard, that's equivalent to about 1600 sessions with my uncle's Quad's. I think that spending that much money for a [relatively] minor improvement would be absurd.  Maybe $100-$200 for a very fancy DIY cable would be reasonable (if only for the fun of putting it together), spend much more than that and your "bargain" starts to lose sight of the bigger picture.

Personally, I think that my DIY power cables sound equally good to any other power cable I've heard (mind you, I've not listened to any power cable over $500 in my setup).  I am also of the belief that 6 feet of conductors at the end of around 120 miles of various cable, trannies, etc. makes little difference to the quality of the power provided.  But then again, I've heard differences between interconnects, so to each his own.

Regardless, very nice job and I admire your effort 

For this to be kept in the DIY forum just makes me sadder about the loss of headwize. 

I don't see any DIY here,  why isn't this in the bloody cable forum?

No... I think the fairy dust firmly settled over NY, at $1000 for that cable you must of had an extra good dose of it. Oh yeah nearly forgot... mate!

Seriously thought I’m just having a jab, no harm meant... ... I mean even if someone could hear a difference with a power cable made from the tin mans hair strands shielded with the stretched testictle skin of Sir Lez Patterson, who am I to argue? 
 

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Originally Posted by downsize 

ONLY in the land down under ... Mate

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Originally Posted by johnwmclean 

No... I think the fairy dust firmly settled over NY, at $1000 for that cable you must of had an extra good dose of it. Oh yeah nearly forgot... mate!

I know you're joking but he didn't say he actually paid $1000 for this cable.  He just used that number for a hypothetical example (and even said it was a hypothetical number)

I think we're done here.