Double Blind Testing Prices All Power Cords Have An Effect On Audio!!!!!

[Sam Lord]

The avforum guys are typical of lazy techs that infest the audio world. (And others?)  I was in a company involved in product development in the late '90s for initial manufacturing under contract with Shunyata, though I had not with any measure of the expertise that Caelin Gabriel brought.  If you wonder what the cables do, test them.  The visual results on scopes are available on their website videos and in some general figures.  They began with two technologies new to the civilian space: environmental noise reduction using ferroelectrics in loose granules (FeSi), and using large-volume conductors (QR/BB) to increase electron and hole availability.  Of course there are many subtleties to those designs that Shunyata have developed in recent years.  The combined effects make your gear lower in noise and (for analog gear) louder.  Yep, louder.  The overall energy increase is tiny, but the perceived volume increases around 2dB.  That comes from lower rise times at extremes of voltage and current.  Go ahead and measure, but bring some really good gear for the purpose.

 

The avsforum guys also punted on cable geometry, citing Blue Jeans as a reference.  Lazy!