Power Cord


Chord Dave owners...what power cords and interconnect cables are you using?
ricred1
I received several PM's and they all recommend Shunyata Sigma NR, but I don't want to spend $3K on a power cord. I guess I'm crazy for spending money on everything else, but not power cords?
I made my own....Furutech connectors and Accrolink or similar cable.  Easy to make and sound great. 
If people who have heard the Shunyata with the Chord Dave like it, maybe stay in the same line, and come down to a priced cord you can live with, or try some older used Shunyata, and just buy and sell till you find what you like.

It is all so system/room /personel preference dependent anyway.

I don’t believe that a specific brand of power cord is supposedly matched best to a specific brand/model of audio device. In my experience, it really comes down to power cord material (metallurgy) and composition/geometry.

I recently made a set of power cords by getting an Audioquest NRG-4 (the best Audioquest cord without the DBS battery). I chopped the ends and put Furutech rhodium connectors on. These power cords excelled! the NRG-4 uses their best PSC+ copper, which is the Audioquest version of OCC. Audioquest is also the only company I found that uses solid core conductors. The NRG-4 uses 4 x 19awg for hot, which makes 13awg. The neutral/ground are 5 x 21awg, which is 14awg.

In all my testing, solid core always wins.  Stranded just does not sound right - I found it gives a solid-state digital effect (or lo-fi).  I have tested this even with high grade Furutech OCC copper stranded cords.

I had Wireworld Platinum power cords, but they were only 1 meter. I moved my components around and required one 2 meter and one 2.5 meter power cords. Today I decided to try Wireworld Silver Electra 7 with upgraded plugs. After listening all day, I submit the Silver Electra 7 gives up very little to the Platinum. It may be because I’m comparing a 1 meter Platinum cord to a 2 meter Silver Electra 7 cord. I’m keeping the Wireworld for now.