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In summer 1998, we went back to visit UC Santa Cruz. The Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" was a massive hit.
"What the heck," said my friend, "I've listened many times, and I don't hear the word, 'Iris,' anywhere." She is right; the word "Iris" does not appear in the Goo Goo Dolls' song. "Funny how iris can be a plant. Or it can be the colored part of your eye."
Because the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" was not released as a single, it was not allowed to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
And I don't want the world to see me. Fail! Here, while we were at a laundromat, Monica tried to strike a sexy pose. We did a kludgy job with her makeup. We could not fold the bottom of her jeans shorts neatly. She wasn't good at blowing bubble gum. And we did not drape her hair evenly enough.
Fail! By 1998, we had had 5 years of experience with myriad after-market audiophile powercords. Perhaps more so than line-level interconnects and speaker cables, powercords effected greater sonic change. But said sonic change was not necessarily positive.
What if your system, when using stock OEM powercords, already sounded balanced? After all, this was something Naim, for example, kept harping about.
In the-1990s, we found the MIT Z-Cord II, to have the least effect on tonal balance.
But ah! When we originally had those MIT Z-Cord II's in the late-1990s, no device treated powercords. Now we have the audiodharma Cable Cooker and the Ground Breaker, which treats hot, cold, AND ground.
After 4 days on the Cooker, the Z-Cord II exhibits signs of being over-Cooked. The music sounds soft, like solid clay turning to mud, or like ice cream melting on the pavement.
But once the Cooked MIT Z-Cord II settles, the reduction in grain allows you, the listener, to relax a little. The images are not as small, and are given a little more room to spread out. The drums aren't thrust forward. The music flows a little more smoothly, not as uptight and disjointed.
The MIT Z-Cord II was only available in 2m and 3m lengths, Most customers only needed 1m lengths. Thus, the Z-Cord II did not sell as well as it could have. Oh well, by consisting of a generic OEM cable, the Z-Cord II can be bent and coiled.
Whether you wear glasses or contacts, tinted or clear, many audiophile want their powercords to bring out the music's bloom and color. That is not what the MIT Z-Cord II is about. It's about taking a stock OEM powercord, reducing noise, and, as Monica says, "Not fucking it up."
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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