Power Cords


I currently have Wireworld Silver Electra power cords with upgraded Platinum plugs. I had two 1M Wireworld Platinum power cords, but rearranged my system and required longer cords. Yesterday I borrowed two Shunyata Sigma NR power cords. On the first note my wife softly said, "that sounds better". She said it was clearer. I listened for a couple hours, changing the power cords a couple of times. In my system and to my ears this is my conclusion:
The Sigma's are cleaner, definitely has more bass, a dead silent and completely black background. The Wireworld cords are more detailed, with a wider soundstage and better spacing/separation of instruments. All things considered I'll keep my Wireworld, but I'm curious to listen to other power cords.
After inserting the Sigma's I just don't understand how anyone that listened to different power cords could conclude that they can't hear a difference. There is a difference, but like any other component the individual has to decide if the change is worth it. $6K for two power cords is relatively expensive. Expensive, but oddly maybe a good value? In my system there was a definite improvement with better bass impact and articulation. Would spending $6K or just changing amplifiers yield similar results? As with most components there are trade-offs...is there a power cord out there that has the benefits of the Sigma's and Wireworld Silver Electra's? If so, at what cost?  
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jafant,

Thanks. The Audience AU24 SX is a neutral cable that does everything very well in my system. I highly encourage anyone seeking new speaker cables to give them a listen. I will post my thoughts about the Clarus Crimson speaker cables on Saturday.
People forget that differences between cables are a lot bigger than they think. You only can understand the DNA of a cable, when you can extract all the different properties of sound.

When you would use an audio system what is able to reveal all the different properties you can find in music and sound there are many cables where you will even loose properties of sound and music.

What we do is let people listen to a system what can reveal all the properties compared to systems which are incomplete and misses different properties. By focussing property by property people can easily understand what is missing

Audio only can be controled and guided when you are aware of all the properties of each individual part in your audio system. When you cannot do this, audio is just one big gamble. Based on the fact that you have no idea which properties you take out when you change an amp, cable, source, or loudspeaker. And when you have no idea which properties you bring in when it will be replaced by another amp, cable, source or loudspeaker.

The Dragon powercables are using silver. Both the Wild and Wel showed the same kind of limitations based on the fact that it usses silver.

Silver is for powercables often not the right material. It works different than silver in interconnects and loudspeakercables.

Even Jim Aud says that copper works a lot better for powercables than silver. He only sells one pure silver powercables based on the fact that clients asked for it.

Both Wel and Wild did not convince in any test I did. The Dragon will be superior to the Wel like it is a dinky toy. Audioquest can create stunning powercables for the first time ever.

This is a great achievement. The conditioners I don’t like based on the fact that they showed not to be complete in properties. I said to Audioquest Europe that they should invite the person who created them.

I can easily explain and demo why it is incomplete. It is very simple like 1 and 1 is 2. Each person with a normal hearing will understand it.




No,

I get what you're saying, but everyone can't afford the Audioquest power cords that you are referring to. So what you're saying is mute to so many of us.
I think even the more affordable will be great. It is the used technique and design what makes them so much better than the older ones.

The older ones where not good enough, because there were better ones. The only thing what I liked about them was that they owned the right properties.
@bo1972  Out of curiosity, what exactly is the cable architecture that makes the audioquest cables so good, in your view? 
This is no trick question, I'm very curious and very much into cable DIY and am sincere in my questions.