24-Sep-2020, 08:59
Well, the question could be easily settled by carrying out suitably controlled listening tests and/or measurements with and without mains conditioning in place. Absent such objective results, I agree with @f1eng that expectation bias (or placebo effect) is a perfectly good hypothesis for any perceived differences in sound quality between the two configurations.
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