27-Apr-2016, 12:46
This taken from an email:
Late on Saturday afternoon, a young man came into my room and reported on the power cord demo that he had experienced in the Nordost in room 450 of the Westin Hotel. What he described was disturbing. He told me that he sat in the front of the room while the presenter swapped out progressively more expensive 6-foot power cables. The cost of the cables ranged from $1.98 to $6000!! And the sound of the system was improved with each new cable...or at least the amplitude coming out of the speakers got louder each time a more expensive cable was hooked up. From his perspective, he told me he saw the presenter turning up the volume when the cables were switched. Sounds like the trick that the producers of the Home Electronics by D-Tronics pulled with the AudioQuest HDMI cables YT video several months ago.
As you can probably gather, he is somewhat of a cable sceptic.
Late on Saturday afternoon, a young man came into my room and reported on the power cord demo that he had experienced in the Nordost in room 450 of the Westin Hotel. What he described was disturbing. He told me that he sat in the front of the room while the presenter swapped out progressively more expensive 6-foot power cables. The cost of the cables ranged from $1.98 to $6000!! And the sound of the system was improved with each new cable...or at least the amplitude coming out of the speakers got louder each time a more expensive cable was hooked up. From his perspective, he told me he saw the presenter turning up the volume when the cables were switched. Sounds like the trick that the producers of the Home Electronics by D-Tronics pulled with the AudioQuest HDMI cables YT video several months ago.
As you can probably gather, he is somewhat of a cable sceptic.
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