I can't!

It's a Power Cord??? How would that effect the appreciation of the audio?

Anyways, for $2k? It actually doesn't say how looooong it is? Maybe that's the hint, just there?

Nope, I can't see where you are going wrong? Lost on me.

Grazie

"From the first moment, when I played a CD, my wife got surprised when I told her that she was not listening to a vinyl record"

Why? Did the $2,500 power cable cause ticks, pops, rumble, surface noise and inner groove distortion to suddenly appear in the output from your CD player? What a bunch of nonsense! Regular old copper wire got it to the power outlet and this short power cord is supposed to make a difference? I repeat; what a bunch of nonsense!

Who knew there was a market for plus $1,000 power cords.

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?powrcabl&1217220576

Clearly those "audiophiles" know something we don't.

Added: Check out this Cable Costs Relative to System thread. WOW.

Something about fools and their money being soon parted comes to mind. For a real buzz you can also get a "quantum filter" to wind around your power cords.

Bob.

Some people spend $200,000 on a house only to completly redesign it. Some people buy a muscle car to make it even stronger.

Some people buy a $2500 power cable to make sure 99.999999999% efficiency vs 99.999996& efficiency. :D

Of course, i'm sure the power in your house right up to the outlet is perfectly clean and crystal pure. It's always just that last 6 feet to the amp and cd player that have all the faults due to lousy wiring. A-yup.

Kinda reminds me of my old boss' internet connection problems. He lives out in a very rural area and was only getting about 800bps (no, not Kbps, just bps) out of his dialup. He called in the phone company to fix it, and they put in all new OFC & teflon cables from the pole to his house. Result? He now gets about 800bps. So, i drove up there and took a look, tracing the wiring back down the road. I was dismayed, though not extremely surprised, to discover that the last 2 miles to his house was literally a pair of lines of barbed wire hung on the poles!!! Good enough for voice, barely. I'm amazed that his modem connected at all.

Reminds me of my uncle's farm. Miles of the phone line were one rung of wire in the fence, the other half of the circuit was by earth return. Only problem was fences have gates, if you didn't shut the gate not only could the sheep get out but the phone didn't work.

Storms were a worry, the warning about not using a phone during one was quite appropriate. I don't know if the fence ever took a direct hit but I clearly remember as a storm approached, every flash of lightning the phone would ring.

Bob.

On the Audio forums someone always brings up the cable subject saying oxygenated copper, silver, gold, and electronic cables are the best and then the big guys answer by saying to use coat hangers strung together which work just as good. They are also buying up those old Stabiline voltage regulators (1960's).
JJK

I think you guys are missing the advantage of these ultra expensive power cords -- they are specially designed to filter out 60 Hz signals.

(Umm, yeah... that's supposed to be a joke...)

"Anyways, for $2k? It actually doesn't say how looooong it is"

Grazie, you obviously didn't order one. If you had you would have seen that the $2,500 only gets the 6' version.

The big daddy (15') is an even bigger $4,750 :~)

What was it Momma Gump said...?

"Stupid is as stupid does."

Check out the rest of his store.
You too can spend $150 for a 2 m. firewire cable, $125 for a 1 m. 3.5 mm. to 3.5 mm. cable, $9,500 for a CD player, etc.
The rip-offs never end :-(

Mike

re the $7 postage. does that include insurance?

I believe there is still a significant bonus price out there for anyone who can hear, in a double blind test, the difference between standard Monster cables and the absurdly expensive premium cables.

On the other hand, this particular cable must be a joke. That comment at the bottom seemed extremely tongue in cheek. Then again, people afflicted with this kind of an zeal rarely have a sense of humor, so...

Dunno if i've related this anecdote before, but here goes again anyway ...

I got hired to run the sound for a tap dance show at the local state college. The sound booth had a rack of 400W/channel amps, and there were 15" 3 way speakers sprinkled all around the house. Funny thing, even with the volume cranked all i got was weak, tinny sound. I decided to check out the wiring so i pulled the amp rack out from the wall to look behind it. I was aghast.

Connected to the binding posts of every amp was 26 gauge solid phone wire! Considering that the cable runs were all in the 150 to 250 foot range, it's no wonder the sound was so bad.

I brought in some cheesy old 14 gauge stranded zip cord and set up a couple speakers on the stage with 200 feet of it running back to one of the amps. That one amp alone to those two speakers blew away the other 22 house speakers combined.

So, yeah, cabling does make a difference, at the low end.

I used to think that there was a basic level of "common sense" in all humans, but I don't think that any more.

How else can you explain the substantial percentage of otherwise-normal-looking people who insist that the moon landing was staged on a set?

Anyway, here's a stylus to go with that power cable. Gotta love those clicks and pops! Like Garrison Keillor's greasy stains on every bag of PowderMilk Biscuits that verify their authenticity, it's the clicks and pops that let you know it's the Real McCoy you're listening to.

> Connected to the binding posts of every amp was 26 gauge solid phone wire! <

LOL. I deal a lot with audiophoole types and one of the current trends is to use 30 AWG wire - on purpose! - for their hi-fi loudspeakers. I kid you not. These guys make all kinds of claims for increased clarity, imaging, yada yada BS nonsense.

--Ethan

lol@riredale

A 10k record needle and in it's description "It is dynamic with in-your-face gusto that grabs you by the balls ...". For 10k that's the least it could do!

- Ray
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Many decades ago I had occasion to work on a tester that included the ability to analize the sensor cards for ferrite core memories. That machine was grounded with a piece of rubber coated 0000 cable. (About an inch or so of multi-conductor copper cable.)

The machine never could really test the cards, but 18 inches of the left-over cable made a really nice defensive weapon to lay beside my car seat. Now if it had been oxygen-free copper, I'd have probably had toget a concealed weapon permit....

Agreed!

Do rich people start out stupid, or do they get stupid after they get rich?

If they started out stupid, how did they get rich?

If they got stupid after they got rich, what is it about having shiploads of money that makes people stupid?

Ten thousand dollars for a cartridge!? Now that's stupid!

JJK, I'll call you're $10K cartridge and raise you a $150K turntable!

http://www.needledoctor.com/Clearaudio-Statement-Turntable?sc=2&category=45

<gimme a break>

I noticed that the $150k turntable has "bullet proof" wood, which would come in handy when your wife goes postal and starts shooting the place up because you spent $150k just so your BeeGee's record collection would sound better.