Audio Absurdity
I feel a need to plant a flag. It’s the flag of rationality. Audio needs a healthy dose of rational thinking, as evidenced by the polarization of discourse, which is focused on bullshit that does not “make a difference”
Arguing about power cords and the sound of DACs is literally depressing. May as well be arguing flat Earth theory. Here’s what affects sound the most, by far:
The recording. Specifically, the VERSION of the recording you are listening to.
Speakers. Still the most influential component in the system itself
The Room: The most important single ingredient.
I’m intentionally avoiding room correction, but it may be the single most important ingredient of all, because of the influence rooms have, and the reality most music lovers are not going to build an optimal listening room for the specific system they buy. (But that is a thing, FWIW. Often manifesting as home theaters.)
In this context, the “contribution” of a power cord is laughable.
Ultimately, you can spare me the rhetoric about unmeasurable qualities. If you claim something sounds different, they you are saying that the final FR graph you can render at the main listening position will change in character. Audibly. And to measure that you need just a simple temporal measurement of some stereo sound.
If a cable swap changes what you can reliably and repeatedly measure, then fine.
You have documented a change in the sound. But that shit had better be lab-quality data, repeatable under scrutiny, and not some audio show magic trick. Because the BS is piled higher and deeper, as usual.
