@aberyclark I 've had Krell Evo 302 with its stock 20A power cable, tried few others, the one from Krell was better and quite enough, imho. Burmester gives power cords with is components (which are also possible to buy separated) and again, they are hard to beat before Nordost Valhalla level. Needless to say, I keep Burmester power cords on my Burmester amp and player.
Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers?
The reason I am asking is I feel manufacturers of high quality components include all that is ever needed, power cable wise. Sure, some people buy power cables because they need special lengths or have some out of the ordinary "noise" issues that need extra insulation. Some even like the visual aspect of the aftermarket cables. I’m just curious why many spend thousands of dollars on such when the manufacturer has taken the power cable into account when producing the product. I cannot see a High-quality audiophile component maker (especially some that sell volume) pass on a few dollars for a better sounding power cable if indeed the cable improved their product. I cannot see a person buying that $7000 amp is not going to balk if the product was introduced at $7100 (with the better cable).
I wonder if Luxman, Accuphase, McIntosh, Gryphon...you name it "dressed" their power cables up to look like expensive aftermarket cables, owners would be so quick to "upgrade"?
I’d be curious to hear Ralph’s opinion on the subject
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@alexatpos Myy Luxman 595 came with a great power cable. I switched in A ZU Event cable and no difference at all. HOWEVER, The ZU cable was a smidge better with my old Nuforce ST120 (class a/b) vs the stock cord. Then again the NuForce was a $600 amp vs a $13,000 integrated. |
@oberoniaomnia my Krell amp is over 30 years old, it has beryllium copper buss bars from power supply to signal circuits, so you haven’t given anybody any new ideas. |
@invalid "bus bars" sound like something *inside* one chassis. I google image searched Krell bus bar, and I only get single chassis items. I doubt that on a power amp there would be bare metal external linkers like speaker jumpers. I am talking about 2 box set ups with connecting cable, and about so-called "upgrades" to those power connecting cables. See below on the Woo WA6 And here the Holoaudio May with power connection cable.
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