Power Cords
I would suggest taking a look at Silnote Audio power cables. I recently purchased three of them and am very pleased with their performance. Full disclosure: I have no ties to the company whatsoever. http://www.mcssl.com/store/silnoteaudio/power-cables |
If uou truly want a power cord that will truly mske uour systrm Try a Verastarr Copper, silver if you can afford it . These awg12,or awg9 high purity foils ,not only hand built precision but put one on your digital to start. They come with a full money back satisfaction guarantee. Mike stands behind every product. How msny companies will do that ? These cables make As much if not more impact than Any component in your system. I have heard them in other systems and compared they are exceptional. I have a power cord on the way I just bought their Sig interconnects And the naturalness and detail makes me wonder why these guys Don't advertise more ,not a commercial product but if you call and Buy more then one thing you can get a break on pricing . I had Synergistic element ,and Cardas cables these are in another league compared . Don't take my word for it .just try them I guarantee you Will be impressed.. |
To each his own and some may hear an audible difference but I believe The Knowledgeable Gordon Holt said it best: (IMO as it refers to cables) Audio as a hobby is dying, largely by its own hand. As far as the real world is concerned, high-end audio lost its credibility during the 1980s, when it flatly refused to submit to the kind of basic honesty controls (double-blind testing, for example) that had legitimized every other serious scientific endeavor since Pascal. [This refusal] is a source of endless derisive amusement among rational people and of perpetual embarrassment for me- Gordon Holt |
@ricred1 - it's too bad that you don't live close to me (central California). I would love to see how some of my "built" power cables stack up. Usually, when cable companies move up in their models, they always go to silver / silver-plated components. I have tested many items with silver content and it just doesn't sound right to me. The audio always has a push in the upper mids and also puts forth an artificial flavor to the sound. It just does not sound natural/real to me. Even a tiny silver fuse is too much silver content in my system. I always use Furutech rhodium male/IEC plugs with one of the following configurations: - braided 20awg solid-core OCC copper Teflon coated. (6 braids for 12awg, 8 braids for 11awg) - Audioquest NRG-4 (best audioquest cable without their DBS system). Chopped with furutech rhodium connectors. Granted the Audioquest is light at 13 awg (so if you want more, I would just double up the cables -- the Furutech plugs are large enough to accept them). However, this is the only UL rated cable that uses solid-core conductors of the proper gauge (19awg for hot, 21awg for neutral/ground). There are some other offerings out there which use 18awg or 16awg conductors. In my experience, those conductors are too large and will roll-off high frequencies. These cables are going to be less than $500 to build. I'm not sure how they will stack up to something like $3,000-6,000, but I am not willing to find out., And the fact that they are probably not going to be solid core and that they will likely use silver is a turn-off for me. The Wire World is still stranded cables. Granted, they are putting the strands into small bundles, but it's still stranded. Though, this is much better than high-stranded stuff like Furutech OCC copper, but it's still stranded. I've tested the Alpha-OCC stranded cords and they sound like low-fidelity equipment. It causes a bright "solid-state" cheapness type of sound. It just doesn't sound right, even though it's OCC and expensive. |
