I have answers to each of the issues you have raised and a few more you have avoided answering. To summarize, let me just say that your whole post has no or little subsatnce. If you want to find out why I say so, please read on.
Vanished from the scene??? This along with your other charges is your conclusion after a scant 24 hours?
Please compare the readiness with which you chose to answer anybody who may have had doubts about your assertions to the time you have taken to respond to my questions. BTW, my questions were to be raised in order to understand where you are coming from, on the basis of what you are trying to make a mockery of a public forum where many new audio and video enthusiasts are joining every day to get a view. I would agree though perhaps it was a bit of an exaggeration, but it's only that, nothing more.
I suggest you read my post here in entirety and no I haven't called you any names...
Thank you very much for sparing me of the verbal abuse. I am relieved for the moment. Don't know what's coming in the future!
As for the tizzy you and cranky are in, below is a quote from Cranky's post to me.
Well, the results (=tizziness on the part of me and cranky) of an observer depends on the observer or measuring instrument (you). I have nothing else to say here. All the posts are there for everybody to read.
"...just because you hear what you want to hear (most high-end audio is placebo, beyond a point)..."
I personally find this statement along with some of the other statements in cranky's post offensive and will not hesitate to take it to the next level. No apologies.
And the next level is name-calling and using abusive language. Beautiful! What cranky has said is a very valid issue, I think. What cranky has written about is actually an interesting subject in psychiatry. People including specialists can have a debate about it. But your preferred method is going to the 'next level'. cranky is having sleepless nights waiting for your well-worded apology.
One of my mentors taught me the following and it's the primary axiom I live by:
"Its not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you don't know but think is so"
I only hope you know what is meant by an 'axiom'. It seems to me that you apply the axiom to everybody else except anybody who may have questioned your conclusions. Usually an axiom assumes some conditions and under those conditions the axiom is valid. It seems to me that the condition of your axiom excludes you.
I find this forum full of wrong opinion and intellectual laziness where conclusions are offered with no experience. Look at your own post where within 24 hours you decided to declare me as something with no knowledge.
No I have NOT declared you as somebody with no knowledge. Please read my posts carefully. There is no reason to be in a 'tizzy' just because somebody in a 'forum full of wrong opinion and intellectual laziness" is expressing doubts on your behavior more than anything else.
As for exotic cables, I never said anything about exotic cables. To me there are cables and then there are better cables. And better is defined by how they sound and not how much they cost. And better sound is what gets closer to the sound of an unamplified acoustic instrument. This standard was set by the absolute sound magazine (and I follow it) which puts objectively heard sound quality above all other criteria. Its great reading.
You did not explicitly say it, true, but you effectively implied it either in price or in quality. If you go back to your own posts, you shall discover it yourself. When somebody says he has tried a lot of good cables, and beyond a point does not find it improving anything, and then you suggest to him an upgrade and even better cables, then what else are you implying?
Per your own post you state:
"one needs good quality power and obviously you need a power cord of decent quality with decent plugs and sockets"
So if you say there could be a difference in badly constructed cables and "decent" cable (and what exactly is a decent cable, sir?) why would you discount that there could be even better materials that could result in a cable better than your "decent cable". Is this a conceit on your part so you can fit the world into your predefined version of it? Very dangerous sir. Go listen to different power cables.
Again, you are saying this without any basis. In my first post, I only stated and summarized other people's observations and opinions and then wanted more explanations from you. It was necessary because I do not know anything about your audio system or music preferences. Please read my post carefully and then tell me if you find me expressing my opinion in favor of you or some of the other people. In addition, I just requested you to be a bit civil in your language. My second post was an expression of outrage protesting the use of foul language by you.
Yes, things can in general be good and better. The question is how much? This is also something I have already raised in my first post. In math lingo, there are terms like "exponential saturation" and "logarithmic approach". What this means is that a particular quality reaches its asymptotic value at an infinitely large value of its argument, but it reaches 80 -90% of that asymptotic value at a small and finite value of the argument. While on one hand, the purpose of a forum like this is to find out as much information and observation as there is available with respect to audio and video products, it is also true that one is always working within a budget and a certain perimeter of taste. The purpose of the forum is very much to find an optimal solution within these restrictions. If one finds a reasonable solution with a 1K-2K power cord for his tastes and that person then proclaims he is happy with his system and subscribes to the view that he does not need a 1 Lakh power cord, you do not need to attack him with your choice words for that assertion. At the same time you also have every right to say what you believe in and why, but all that has to be done without offending anybody. And that was seriously lacking in your posts not only in this thread but also in another thread I read on TTs.
Square_wave has given an excellent description of an objectively perceived difference in cable. I could not have said it any better.
Please remember, square_wave did not have to use any foul language to share his experience and views.
As for equipment I have, I run an analogue system with a VPI turntable and souther linear tracking arm and shelter 501 cartridge. I have a melos tube preamp feeding a quad amp and quad speakers. I run hand built power cables, monster power conditioners (its the only good thing monster makes as their speaker and interconnect cables suck) and FMS cables for interconnects and speaker cable.
Is this a quad tube power amp or their 909 or 99 power amp? Are they monoblocks? I have recently auditioned a quad 909 stereo power amp.
Which speakers would they be? Quad has a range from 11L2 currently to way up there, although I have heard only the lowest range ones recently. Long time ago, I have heard one of their electrostatic speakers.
Well, my system is no secret to most people in this forum, because I make frequent reference to them in many of my posts and at least in a few places the whole system is described. For you though, I will again reveal it here:
Sources: CA Azur 740c CDP,, Dual CS5000 TT, Onkyo single cassette deck (cannot remember the model no, but an entry level decent one, until recently used to have a 3 head, bias-controlling Aiwa single cassette deck bought 20 years ago, but that has unfortunately died). Macbook pro connected to the DAC portion of the 740c CDP through an optical cable, Sony PCM D50 professional recorder and player (records up to 24 bit/96 KHz).
Graphic Equalizer: Vintage Kenwood GE5020 (bought in 1989)
Amp: Vintage HK 6300 (bought in 1989), one entry level Nad amp (currently in a month or so, I am going to upgrade to a Leben tube amp, most probably).
Speakers: Canton Karat 60 (top of the line of the Karat line, handcrafted, bought in 1989, 22 - 30K Hz, 93.4 db, 4 Ohm).
Interconnects: QED, Speaker cable: VDH, both mid-fi level.
As for your comment about dinyaar's Bryston and Accuphase amps, I owned a Bryston 3B PRO amp for many years. Bryston makes some great stuff. I know of but have never heard Accuphase.
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I have no comment on this. Good for you to have owned the Brystons.
I have not left any portion of this particular post of yours. But nowhere, I see even remotely an attempt to answer my queries with regard to the changes or improvements by using a better or "exotic" cable. You have left that to square_wave's observations. How about you? Can you say with a bit of detail what you have observed with specific reference to some music.
How about a response on the music part. I said in my post I was expecting a technical answer in this part, as anybody knows some music appreciation is necessary to understand the differences. Music is such a deep subject and unless it is clear to me what is it that you are after (it depends on your taste, experience and level of appreciation), how would I know the value of what you are saying. You implied above that you are after the exact reproduction of unamplified music. That carries no information for me. Let me give you an example. If I am looking for the exact tonalities of Nikhil Banerjee's sitar, one has to listen to him in the privacy of a room (without electronics), even there there would be room acoustics that can change the frequency spectrum and tonal quality to some extent. Very few people have heard music like that. Then, how do you know what you are after. That criterion is only some vague indication, one cannot go by such criteria when one is talking about debatably small audible differences.
Look, at the end, let me just say, you can certainly voice your opinions and observations on equipments and related things, without the name calling and the insults (your self-proclaimed 'next level'). But you have not given us any detailed and precise evidence to back up your claims with regard to power cables and also with regard to assertions like "intellectual laziness". Looks like you have developed this habit of name-calling as a method of self-defence and cannot get out of it. I have taken each sentence of your post and have shown you that you have no claims that you have backed up so far. In addition you have been utterly abusive in your earlier posts, and I can guarantee you that even if I can agree with you on any content (although looks very unlikely at this point of time), I will protest that kind of behavior.
