Someone explain.

onomatopoeia99

Do you know how noisy 240V mains is?  And how the voltage wanders away from 240V either due to demand management or substation switching? This is where I run into problems with "quality" mains leads.  They aren't polishing a turd, they are attempting to preserve the turd as precisely as possible.

To ensure the highest quality mains supply it would be far better to run

mains ----> battery ------> pure sine wave inverter -----> device

which you could do for the cost of the £600 lead with cash left over. 

[Deleted User]

Blind test of mains power cables. Looks like a thorough effort with ABX testing:

https://hometheaterhifi.com/volume_11_4/feature-article-blind-test-power-cords-12-2004.html

For those too impatient to read to the end, 49% correctly identified the $2,500 mains cable versus the stock ones. 

Coin flipping would have been quicker and given the same result. 

Ergates

flaneurs_lobster said:

The thing I can't quite understand is how a beautiful hand-crafted 1 metre power lead from the wall to your box can possibly compensate for the half-mile of dodgy cabling between your house and the sub-station let alone the 50-year old iffy ring main in your house. 

You don't see those bits, so they don't count.

IvanOpinion

I have no idea on whether or not a power cord can make a difference but have experienced the subtle difference good speaker cable can make. It leads to the question 'Is the sound better or is it just different?'

There was an article in a HiFi magazine a few years back (maybe as much as 20 years ago) where an orchestral conductor was being interviewed and asked to give his verdict in relation to different set ups. He thought the sound was worse on some of the 'top end' setups because they got the bass/mid/treble balance wrong or provided too much separation between instruments (he could pick out individual instruments but said their sound should have melded in with others).

My take-aways from that article were, yes the sound was different, but 'different' is not always better. Like taste, we all hear things slightly differently, and one person's 'better' may not be another person's 'better'.

flaneurs_lobster

What @IvanOpinion said.  I don't think many people would argue that a decent "audiophile" setup will sound better than a Bush music centre, or that hand-built audio components will be of a (quantitatively) higher quality and therefore of considerably higher cost.

TBH, if it makes some people happy to spend 20 grand on a power cable or £2K on a fuse then let the poor sods get on with it. Just don't let them start spouting cod false science to the normals to try and justify their fetish.

Jenni_D

This thread has been pruned - someone obviously can't take what they dish. 🙄

Heedtheadvice

Possibly for the best, Jenni_D !

debitcardmayhem

Jenni_D said:

This thread has been pruned - someone obviously can't take what they dish. 🙄

Heedtheadvice said:

Possibly for the best, Jenni_D !

Not sure it was them , one of my posts has been disposed of , and I was definitely not being rude

Of course it could be someone has reported the offender , as they threatened to do!

Heedtheadvice

Not me! One of my post vanished too so I expect it could have been someone else. At least the bad info has gone.