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Do hi end aftermarket power cords make a picture improvement on Plasma and LCD screens the way they improve the sound on Amps,cd players etc?
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But shhh, don't tell anyone, this applies to audio too.
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Tin-eared audiofool and obsessed landscape fotografer.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
Put the money toward the Pioneer plasma. Once you have that you can A/B cables all you like.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Well find out for yourself. Unlike audio delusions which are captured only in memory you can make a photograhic capture of your TV picture before and after changing power cords. And you can also compare test patterns.Then you can really see if there's anything to it or not.
Of course I'd expect modern style audiophiles to say, after they can see no difference, that you can't tell the quality of the picture by looking at it.
"Of course I'd expect modern style audiophiles to say, after they can see no difference, that you can't tell the quality of the picture by looking at it."Sharing my first hand experience, I can easily distinguish how just a power cord can help or harm video quality and have proved this to several nay sayers by comparing a standard computer power cord versus an FIM Gold on just my Faroudja line scaler/doubler.
Everyone that I've done the demo for has been able to tell a difference, (not one of them an audiophile).
Go figure.
:)
Whether the difference is good or not is system-dependent (and yes I've got a bunch of aftermarket PCs in the system). I haven't tried to see how well it works with displays (one display is wired from the attic; the other is a POS) but I imagine it could be beneficial.
I had a pc that I made and a guy tried it and bought it because he said it made his plasma look better. Since all my tvs have captive cords, I'll just take his word for it, but he gave me $100 for it...
Hi-End aftermarket powercords don't make a difference on anything.
...and/or different ideas.Here's one that's appropriate to this subject--just because YOU think sonic differences can't exist or can't hear the differences doesn't mean differences don't exist. As you can tell from my signature, I'm no Golden-Eared Audiofile*, so I can't hear lots of subtle differences that others can, but I've been around enough GEAs and run listening tests on ICs, etc., that demonstrated to me that differences do indeed exist and that the GEAs hear them well enough to be statistically reliable.
Open your ears and mind--you'll learn new things. :-)
* One of my English-simplification 'campaigns' is to replace F-sounding PHs with Fs.
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Tin-eared audiofool and obsessed landscape fotografer.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
This issue has been gone over before. But I always enjoy the discussion.Maybe our electrical engineering texts are wrong and someone will mention the audio-marketers that first brought the discrepency to the fore when accepting his or her Nobel. That, or like Slick 50 engine treatment, or shitaki stones, or magnets, or green pens ... or any other magical device, it will be relegated to another example of our fallability.
Either the world is knowable by reason - or it aint. Pick your camp.
TommyK
...or they LISTEN. Wow, THERE'S an idea...actually LISTENING to a piece of equipment designed to be listened to. WOW!
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Tin-eared audiofool and obsessed landscape fotografer.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
You are NOT ... an audiophile yet.
Wrong.
Well- they shure do on my solid state amps.Oh I forgot-this is the Video Asylum where mid-fi crap is often confused with hi end audio/video gear.
Yeah, you must be a real audiophile, modern style, otherwise you wouldn't use snobby marketing terms like "mid-fi" in normal conversation.
...of the general level of quality of home-audio/video equipment.Tom, audiophiles aren't 'normal'. Most of us are obsessive, compulsive, emotional people who love music, reproduced and otherwise, and spend an unreasonable proportion of their time thinking and talking about this stuff, on forums and otherwise. I've heard the term midfi often in those conversations.
Enjoy the music and try not to get too hung up on little annoyances on these forums*; life will indeed be happpier.
* I'm the first to admit that I do write a lot about writing on these forums, but I try hard to be polite and not sarcastic.
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Tin-eared audiofool and obsessed landscape fotografer.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
Yep. Recently, I have heard a lot of people(not on the forum)professing to be "an audiophile", and when asked about equipment, they always lead with something like " I have the Denon AVR blah blah blah"......
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