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?  
ricred1
hahahahaha........I don’t think it makes a big difference. I know some people who create their own jackets around cables.

They believe it makes a big difference. I never used it, so I cannot give any judgement about that.

I think light will influence sound. So when you create jacket what reflects the light it can make a difference.

I did a lot of research in smog and mann this has a big negative influence on sound and even vision. I can reduce smog thse days a lot and it makes a great improvement.

Even the level of humidity influecnes the sound and stage. The great thing about all the tests I did it gives you a great perspective of how many things can influence both sound&vision.

People have no idea how ineffective they use all the different parts in their systems. When you work an think by Tru-Fi (all properties) and the parts who negative influences the sound you can use each individual part so much more effective.

The pictures overhere on Audiogon proof that people have no idea about the properties. I know the DNA of many of them. When you would have know the properties you would never made the combination you created.

Also based on the placement of their systems it proofs that they have no idea how it influences the results in sound and stage.

There are many ways to improve the sound and stage. And even many have nothing to do with money.

In 2018 we will proof and demo that Statement Audio Pro-measurement is by far the most effective tool in audio. And it also proofs how limited audio is without it.

It is my personal goal to share it with as many people as possible. Because it will give many people a huge step to a much higher level in sound and stage quality and realism.

I see that most people in audio still think and work like it is 1980. This needs to stop. And you know why?

Because they way audio is done all over the world it will make the audio market within 20 years a lot smaller. You need to do it a lot differently to make the new generation also interested in both sound&vision.

These people all cannot change it, there is a big need to change. I am 45 years old, at audioshows I am one of the more young people at shows. This proofs how insane it is. The average age is far over 50 years old.

Only real emotion and intensity in both sound&vision can make a difference. And this is what we want to share with the world.
Excellent insight as always- bo1972.
I am looking forward in reading your review on the AQ Hurricane PC.
Happy Listening!
I will use 2018 to bring both sound&vision to a next level. I waited some more time. In the last 2 yearss I have done so much research that I can outperform any person in the world in both sound&vision. The level in realism and emotion is of a new reference level.

My personal goal is to be the best in the world in both sound&vision. And I will proof it with facts and real sound&vision. It will be a new world and experience for many people.

I can garantee you that all people still focus on products and brands. And when you ask them simple question, they cannot answer any of them. This proofs and again on facts that they have no idea why the stage and sound is what they hear.

And this also proofs that they cannot control and guide both sound&vision. There is not even a discussion possible. I tried it with many people who also work in audio. They all had to admit that they had no idea why the stage and sound is what they hear.

When you cannot think in properties of sound and you can’t tell how voices and instruments sounds in real and how they are projected in sound, you never can understand audio either.

The facts proof over and over again that both sound&vision what has been created by trial and error is in over 99% 2D. And it sounds and looks so much different than in reality.

That is why I will give demoes in 2018 with conservatorium students to show people how voices and instruments really sounds. This is the only way that the coloured and 2D audio en also vision will stop.

Many many people with expensive systems who were honest to me told me that they were not that happy with their system. Each stunning system will be used so much more frequently and longer at the same time.

When both sound&vision can be presented at a higher level in realism and emotion all people would want to own it. No 2D audio system or system with almost no diversity in sound can make us humans happy with it.

The emotion is inside the music and movies. It only can be experienced when an audiosystem can reveal all the information of the recording or movie.


"In the last 2 yearss I have done so much research that I can outperform any person in the world in both sound&vision."


Ahem, I wish we could be spared the above hint of the messianic on Audiogon... Invariably, the True Trueth shall be revealed... Yet in the nebulosity of a forever receeding future. Meantime, while we bite our fingernails to the quick in audiophrenic pangs of anxiety, we are regaled by prophecies of sonic doom for the unbelievers, whence we shall be finally confronted by the revelation of biblical TrueFi and BO1972's audio/visual omniscience 


Jokes aside, I am confident that the new AQ PCs are going to be fine music makers... Looking forward to having the fortune of trying them some time.

 

 G.


 

It's refreshing to see at least one power cord manufacturer who is conscious of the directionality of wire in general and of the power cord specifically. The correct answer to my question regard g the best sounding color for the jacket of any Cable or Power Cord is ......white!