Cardas or Virtual Dynamics power cords? Opinions?

Ah yes, John. You are infected. Yes, we could be redirecting all this time and money into some other hobby, or some professional association, or some political par--whoa.

It's what we do to escape.

I've suggested to several people, including Rick S, that someone should manufacture some form of cable management system. Won't be me. I'm already dodging enough responsibility. But you'd think, what with the width, weight and inflexibility of these precious monsters, that some mfr would go the extra mile to make sure that we can easily introduce them into our system. But then, that's me.

When the Rowland is up and running give the VD a shot. They might work. Maybe not. All you're out - besides the repair on the Rowland - is some time. I'll be interested to hear your impressions if you do.

John-

Just so you don't feel alone, I too have almost zero space behind my rack and a big TV almost against 1 side of it, so I have 1 access point, period. I need to contort myself behind a speaker, carefully stepping between 10 feet of coiled bi-wire Revelation rebar just to begin to be able to barely reach the connections in my rack, which I can only reach with one hand. It took me over 2 hours to properly install my bi-wire(lots of cables) Revelation speaker cables, with the pre-bending trial-and-error, etc.

Know what? It was worth it and I'd do it again tomorrow for the kind of performance I'm getting out of these cables. Hope this helps a little.

Yep, 2 hours for me to with the Rev speaker wires. About 1 hour each for the Rev I/c's. Lots of intense work, I was even sweating before I was all done. This was one concern Rick had when he released the cable to the public. The sound you get out of the Rev cables is worth the work. So much so that I am willing to do it all again with the new 6 ga. wire in the Genisis line. "Sounds like good fun" to me !!

Fplanner2000,
You didn't mention the magnets sticking to everything in the process. I actually found a bottle cap stuck to one of mine.

I agree with Islandear and Flanner. The Revelations are worth the effort. Go for it, John!

My mono blocks are directly behind my speakers also with not very much space between the wall and the back of the amps. I have them on SRA Ohio-Class XL Plus Isobases. After prebending the 8-foot Revelations, I looped them underneath the SRA Craz racks, then underneath the Isobases and finally to the back of the speakers. It took at least an hour to get everything just right, but there is no pressure on the amp or speaker binding posts.

I have not heard the Transparent Opus MM or Reference MM or the Purist Audio Anniversary or VD Genesis speaker cables, but I'd be surprised if anything short of those is going to better VD Revelations (there are some other top of the line cable I have not heard either -- like the top of the line Siltechs, the Silversmith Paladiums and the Jena Labs Dreamdancers, all of which have their proponents).

Best,

Ed