Cooler Master MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ PSU Review

[Nuckles_56]

Thanks for the answer Aris, that's an impressive piece of kit you have to be that sensitive. Though in future, I don't think you need quite so many significant figures for the graph.

 

[Jim90]

Utterly illogical. Yet another example of a world broken.

 

[InvalidError]

Utterly illogical. Yet another example of a world broken.

There are audiophools out there that spend hundreds of dollars on AC power cords and speaker wires because they think they give better sound or picture quality than a $5 ones. At least this PSU has the merit of being designed for good airflow to minimize hot spots and grossly over-rated components to reduce the likelihood of premature failures.

 

[eriko]

@ InvalidError

My five-thousand-pound SACD player *clearly* sounded better with custom order solid silver interconnects & speaker cables.

Everything was 'brighter', and yet without being harsh, nor blinding at the same time.

- Not everyone has an ear for hi-fi. So don't knock what you clearly don't understand.

 

[InvalidError]

Everything was 'brighter', and yet without being harsh, nor blinding at the same time.

- Not everyone has an ear for hi-fi. So don't knock what you clearly don't understand.

Have you successfully put your ears to the double-blind A-B test and achieve a success rate of at least 70% in 4 out of 5 consecutive sittings? Anything less would be only marginally better than random guesses. If the difference is so clear, you should be able to achieve 100% 5/5. I bet you $1000 that even golden ears can't achieve that between two cables as long as the worst cable is at least of generic #16 copper lamp cord quality.

The only difference between silver and copper is slightly higher conductivity and the only effect that has is ever so slightly reduced wiring power loss. While cable geometry would affect its characteristic impedance, the mismatch between the three components involved is so large (under two ohms at the amplifier's output, 4-16 ohms at the speakers and 90-150 ohms for the cable) that we're way past the point of a proper transmission line.

High fidelity is supposed to be about producing an output which is as close to the original input as possible. There are scientific measurements for that such as THD, SNR and crosstalk, no need for that vague "warmth", "brightness" and "harshness" BS which has a lot more to do with the subjectiveness of how different people like to "color" their sound by adding different types of distortion and equalization profiles to it. By that point, you've thrown the fundamental principle of high fidelity out of the window.