I am old enough to remember when speaker cables were 18 gauge lampcord and interconnects were the cheap vinyl-insulated RCA cables bought at Radio Shack. I also once thought that buying 10 gauge Monster Cable for $1 per foot and gold-plated interconnects for $15 was outrageous and that I was gullible for buying them. Now I have High Fidelity cables that cost over $10K each and have bought special vinyl pressings that cost hundreds of dollars each, not even mentioning what I have paid for components. We have paid a price for improved technology and I certainly am guilty of supporting the exponential increases in costs to be in this hobby. I am also not sorry I have done so given the major improvements in sound. It seems as though what is just out of reach financially sounds absurd to us.
Power cords at ridiculous prices?
Seems to me there's no shortage of "black magic" out there, people spending $1000 on power cords? If the equipment you own is well designed with hefty power supplies and adequate capacitive filtering on-board, the grunge from the AC lines will be dealt with. I'm not discounting upgrading stock cords with something of a little better quality, but it seems to me spending the equivalent of a mortgage payment, on a piece of wire, makes us audiophiles the subject of ridicule by any reasonable person. Okay, I'll stand back now and take my lumps....
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I agree the high fidelity ultimate helix has a zero noise floor and a see through transparency that will not allow me to let go of it. There are companies that are pushing the limits of sound to unbelievable heights. I didn't understand at first. I remember Rick let me listen to veloce ls1 pre amp with the saetta mono blocks. It's was almost see through. He has managed to get that sound using his technology which is almost a component level difference. Im using this power cord to feed my resonessence mirus dac. |
ebm2,873 posts12-25-2015 11:33amUsing all Stealth V12 power cables they improve the sound very much a great cable,although not cheap. Jump on it ASAP!!!!! |
I think expenditure on power cables should be relative to your equipment. I don’t subscribe to the view some audiophiles hold that cables should be elevated to the status of components (with commensurate expenditure). Connecting cables of equal or greater cost than the connected component is stupid IMHO. I own Vitus Signature series gear & use Jorma Prime pc’s ($4900US) re-terminated with cryo’d Oyaide M1/F1 connectors. The Prime pc has wonderful tone, timbre and texture, plenty of detail and sounds natural and sophisticated overall. Fred Crowder at Dagogo found the Prime pc works superbly with front end and preamp components, somewhat less successfully with high current amplifiers. Thus I may upgrade my pc’s in the critical positions of wall-conditioner & conditioner-power amp to Siltech Ruby Double Crown pc’s at some point in the future which have notably good bass. They are probably the best pc’s in the world. |
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