One of the things that I really like about Blue Jeans Cable company, although I do not own any of their products, is the articles (and scathing legal responses) that Kurt writes.
Here is an excerpt from his essay called "Does Wire Matter ?":
"Absent some sort of known malfunction, there's very little reason to think that replacement of control or power cables will improve your system's performance at all. There have been a lot of strange claims made in recent years about power cords, and people paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for them; but the fact is that a power cord, so long as it's well-constructed and undamaged, correctly sized for the load, and driving a reasonably well-designed power supply, should make no difference whatsoever to the sound of your system. The same goes for these other non-signal cables. If they seem to be working, don't mess with them."
BJC does not even bother manufacturing AC power cables even though they are probably the easiest type of cable to build, and there is a market and profit potential with such a product. Kurt must strongly believe in his ideas on this matter to do such a thing. On the other hand, maybe he's smarter than we are and is trying to preserve his company's good name by not getting caught up in "cable voodoo". Who knows ??
This is something that audiophiles should consider before spending hundreds or thousands on AC cords.
~VDR
Here is an excerpt from his essay called "Does Wire Matter ?":
"Absent some sort of known malfunction, there's very little reason to think that replacement of control or power cables will improve your system's performance at all. There have been a lot of strange claims made in recent years about power cords, and people paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for them; but the fact is that a power cord, so long as it's well-constructed and undamaged, correctly sized for the load, and driving a reasonably well-designed power supply, should make no difference whatsoever to the sound of your system. The same goes for these other non-signal cables. If they seem to be working, don't mess with them."
BJC does not even bother manufacturing AC power cables even though they are probably the easiest type of cable to build, and there is a market and profit potential with such a product. Kurt must strongly believe in his ideas on this matter to do such a thing. On the other hand, maybe he's smarter than we are and is trying to preserve his company's good name by not getting caught up in "cable voodoo". Who knows ??
This is something that audiophiles should consider before spending hundreds or thousands on AC cords.
~VDR
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