Messing with the power cable is bad advice. Putting boxes of crystals around wires is silly advice.

Bfreedma is right. You should never jury rig any cable that plugs into the wall. That could invalidate your equipment warranty, make it impossible to collect on insurance, electrocute you, or burn down your house. A licensed electrician would never mess around like that because he’d lose his...

I misspoke. You’re correct. There is theoretical perfection and practical perfection. I was intending to always keep it in context of listening to music on a home audio system in a living room, but I strayed into theory, which I was trying not to do. Theory requires caveats that cloud the actual...

This is part of the power cord? I thought it had something to do with RCA jacks.

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You didn't hear what I was saying I guess... For the purposes of playing commercially recorded music in the home high res files are not at all useful. HD audio doesn't have any more resolution than 16/44.1. See the link in my sig file "Bit Rate Is Not Resolution". According to Nyquist in order...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking Or more precisely what we are dealing with here... "Quasi-magical thinking" describes "cases in which people act as if they erroneously believe that their action influences the outcome, even though they do not really hold that belief".[47] People...

Your syntax is convoluted, but if I understand you correctly... "Audibly transparent" is not a subjective term. It means that a difference is so small, it can't be discerned with human ears. That is a binary "yes/no", not a judgment call. The thresholds of perception are determined objectively...

wait... Are you the guy who used to do ASMR videos with all his equipment wrapped in tin foil?

The problem we seem to always find popping up around here is that people will decide on a conclusion and then go looking for evidence that shows that they're right. They don't let the evidence lead them to a conclusion. Cherry picking and ignoring evidence that doesn't go the direction you want...

Defective by design.

Audible transparency is the goal, not theoretical perfection. One is easily achievable. One isn't.

He doesn't understand how it works, so he assumes everyone- science included- doesn't know.

Like the rest of us.

It’s good enough for the medicines that save your life. It should be good enough for some stupid wires or a digital player.

Bias is remarkably consistent.

Maybe crochet like a tea cozy!

I guess he figures a filter is a filter.

I knew a crazy old woman that claimed that her TV emitted strange rays and the only way to fix it was to put boxes of loam on top and all around it.

It’s assuming that different is better I guess.

It emulates a dog’s breakfast.

I don’t know why inferior performance should be looked at as a feature, but that’s the audiophile world for you. Most DACs and players have perfect sound to human ears right out of the box. You have to really go out of your way and spend a lot of money and set it to bizarre settings to find one...

NOS DACs are obsolete technology with inferior performance compared to modern DACs.

There’s no evidence that super audible frequencies add anything to recorded music. Most musical instruments don’t even produce those frequencies and the small amount that music does contain is masked by lower octaves.

Isn’t MQA out of business? If so, as soon as the contract is up, they’ll all go poof.