Too Obsessive About USB Choices?

Greg Ferguson said:
I’m so glad I can’t hear electrons moving at nearly the speed of light in a wire. They’d be so screechy, probably like high-speed fingernails on a chalkboard.
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Thankfully, electrons don't move in a cable at the speed of light - they move pretty slow in comparison.

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Jeronimo said:
No offense…but how can people believe that an AC cable can make any difference to the sound of your amp? What kind of magic could there be in this few feet of cable that would improve your sound?
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It’s not magic just a basic improvement. I heard it and so did my engineer, who is booked all the time and doesn’t need my money bad enough to ‘yes’ me.

Here’s a review which details the company’s resources and determination to achieve measurable performance improvements:

http://stereotimes.com/cables091001.shtml
 
stereotactic said:
It’s not magic just a basic improvement. I heard it and so did my engineer, who is booked all the time and doesn’t need my money bad enough to ‘yes’ me.

Here’s a review which details the company’s resources and determination to achieve measurable performance improvements:

http://stereotimes.com/cables091001.shtml
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Just because I can only react to this once... 🤣 :joycat: 😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂:joycat::joycat::joycat::joycat::joycat::joycat:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣:p
 
stereotactic said:
It’s not magic just a basic improvement. I heard it and so did my engineer, who is booked all the time and doesn’t need my money bad enough to ‘yes’ me.

Here’s a review which details the company’s resources and determination to achieve measurable performance improvements:

http://stereotimes.com/cables091001.shtml
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If anyone else can't get the link to work like I couldn't get it to work here's the archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200116123213/http://stereotimes.com/cables091001.shtml

@stereotactic that's a marketing piece. There's nothing objective or even measured presented in that article.

You've been had if you spent $200 on a 5ft power cable with the promise of it making a difference.
 
stereotactic said:
It’s not magic just a basic improvement. I heard it and so did my engineer, who is booked all the time and doesn’t need my money bad enough to ‘yes’ me.

Here’s a review which details the company’s resources and determination to achieve measurable performance improvements:

http://stereotimes.com/cables091001.shtml
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If you truly believe this, I know a bridge for sale.

I have been on a site for over 20 years with all of the top engineers in the world and yes guys like Fleming Rasmussen and Andy Sneap and many others like them are on there and we laugh at these kind of things, frequently. If you measure said cables they show no difference in resistance or an increase in transmission of voltage than any other cables out there.

It is utterly BS when audiophiles talk about 20K power cables making a difference in the audio circuit. They carry no signal and only carry power from the outlet to the power supply.

Here is a great article that gives a very good detailed explanation of this.

https://www.audioholics.com/audio-video-cables/power-cables

James
 
iaresee said:
If anyone else can't get the link to work like I couldn't get it to work here's the archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200116123213/http://stereotimes.com/cables091001.shtml

@stereotactic that's a marketing piece. There's nothing objective or even measured presented in that article.

You've been had if you spent $200 on a 5ft power cable with the promise of it making a difference.
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I didn’t spend $200, I have the cheaper one, and I’m aware of the marketing angle. They have a patent on their hollow oval wire design, I can hear a difference and the principles outlined in the patent make sense to me. Dig it or not:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6005193A/en?oq=U.S.+Pat.+No.+6,005,193+

A more bite sized explanation of the principles from the company website:

https://homeaudio.analysis.plus/knowledge-base/
 
stereotactic said:
I didn’t spend $200, I have the cheaper one, and I’m aware of the marketing angle. They have a patent on their hollow oval wire design, I can hear a difference and the principles outlined in the patent make sense to me. Dig it or not:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6005193A/en?oq=U.S.+Pat.+No.+6,005,193+

A more bite sized explanation of the principles from the company website:

https://homeaudio.analysis.plus/knowledge-base/
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You can patent lots of things with out having to prove they work. It’s not a rigorous test by any means.

Unless your testing was double blind, what you hear is created entirely by the knowledge of how much money left your wallet and not because of any actual change.

Links to the company website are useless. You can put anything you want on a website. Show me the double blind tests conducted by a third party. I’ll wager my engineering degree nothing that holds up to scrutiny exists.
 
Even IF that had any actual measurable effect on audio cables, a power cable is NOT an audio cable. AC power is immediately rectified and smoothed to DC for use in an amplifier. A coat hanger can pass 50 or 60 Hz AC without issue up to a certain current threshold.
 
iaresee said:
You can patent lots of things with out having to prove they work. It’s not a rigorous test by any means.

Unless your testing was double blind, what you hear is created entirely by the knowledge of how much money left your wallet and not because of any actual change.

Links to the company website are useless. You can put anything you want on a website. Show me the double blind tests conducted by a third party. I’ll wager my engineering degree nothing that holds up to scrutiny exists.
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Understood, but all I’m saying is I hear a difference in the cables I have from them, and the ideas behind them make sense to me. I didn’t say everything the company claims has been completely validated. I just posted the basic information on the ideas behind their design and that they claim there’s a measurable difference. That is all…
 
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"Since his Silver Oval designs had first gotten my pants all in a bunch when I initially tried them and chose them as my reference, I had long been anticipating his power cords.

Chief Hardware maven and column contributor Stu McCreary had called me awhile back sounding quite impressed (like his pants were all bunched up too)

The way this setup hurled instruments into your lap would classify it as forward by almost any audiophile. Don't get me wrong, I loved it

I enjoyed the system's ability to thrust itself beyond the stage set by the boundaries of the loudspeaker placement.

The entire stage relaxed and instantly become more intricate in its retrieval of inner detail and delicacy during heavy passages. There was no longer the feeling that the instruments wanted to jump out at you and give you a big kiss on loud passages"

This cable review makes me feel dirty.
 
PixelPusher21 said:
"Since his Silver Oval designs had first gotten my pants all in a bunch when I initially tried them and chose them as my reference, I had long been anticipating his power cords.

Chief Hardware maven and column contributor Stu McCreary had called me awhile back sounding quite impressed (like his pants were all bunched up too)

The way this setup hurled instruments into your lap would classify it as forward by almost any audiophile. Don't get me wrong, I loved it

I enjoyed the system's ability to thrust itself beyond the stage set by the boundaries of the loudspeaker placement.

The entire stage relaxed and instantly become more intricate in its retrieval of inner detail and delicacy during heavy passages. There was no longer the feeling that the instruments wanted to jump out at you and give you a big kiss on loud passages"

This cable review makes me feel dirty.
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Audiophiles are often obnoxious geeks who love hyperbole, that doesn’t mean they aren’t hearing some actual difference between things.
 
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