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Oyaide Cables

Information on this cable brand was showing up in another thread, which is fine, but I figured this cable line deserves it's own thread.  I have very little experience with the brand so far as I have only had the Black Mamba V2 PC  in my system for about 200 plus hours and just installed the  TUNAMI GPX-R V2 PC last night.  I only need one PC for my system at this time as my Integrated amp has a DAC and my music streamer doesn't take after market PCs.    Firstly, the Black Mamba V2 PC is excellent.  I know audio is very system dependent, but in my system the BM V2 was the best PC I have had, it really made a noticeable difference.  It kind of gives you the  best of both words, good clarity and extension but at the same time the system is relaxed and natural sounding.  Very important if you have a lot of rock and pop and poorly produced material in your music collection.   The Tsunami GPX-R V2 PC improves upon the BM V2 in that the air and spacing is better, the stage is deeper and wider,  and the bass is still tight, but thicker.   I am thrilled with these PCs so I ordered the Tunami Nigo V2 speaker cables and those should be here soon.  I am very happen with the Western Electric 14 GA, but after hearing how good their PCs are, I just had to give the Oyaide SC a try.     Anyway, bottom line is I suspect it would be very hard to find a line of cables that sound this good at such affordable prices.  A Big thanks to Wig for letting me know about these PCs and Speaker cables and guiding me along.  
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tuffy72561
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lak and others,

Which Oyaide power cable would you recommend for a DAC or a hybrid integrated amp? Are the Oyaide cables better than the CPT Super Stroke, Furutech SO22N and Cerious Tech GE, but not quite as good as Cerious Matrix and Furutech DPS -4? Trying to decide on some new power cables. I have a Silnote Poseidon ES Reference PC on my Sony SACD but when connected to this PC the cabl actually moves the player out of position.Does anybody have experience with the Silnote PC cable for comparison to others in terms of performance?

Thanks everybody in advance!
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lak
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@tuffy72561 I think it all depends on how much money you want to spend. I've not heard the Matrix power cord but my experience with all of the Cerious Graphene power cords, what I've read others have said that own the Matrix and my gut is telling me to go with the Matrix Power Cord. The Oyaide TUNAMI GPX-R V2, I'll bet would sound very good but to my surprise, I've not heard that power cord either, turns out I purchased the TUNAMI GPX V2 power cord which is slightly different but still very good at a fraction of the cost of the Matrix.
Don't misunderstand the Furutech SO22N and DPS-4 are good also. One never knows what will sound best in their system and room until one demo's. 
t_ramey
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I think all the cables tuffy72561 mentioned are really good cables and like lak said its just a matter of trying them out in your own system to see what is preferred. From what I’ve heard thus far I would also say that if your system is a tad on the warm side that the Super Stroke and BM v2 could be a nice fit. And if things are a tad on the bright or lean side then probably anything from Furutech is good with the GE and Matrix being down the middle. But then you can always mix and match to each component to get a desired effect, which could have you going around in circles but hey that’s half the fun!

And don’t underestimate the cable going from the wall to your conditioner or power station. I was playing around over the weekend changing out the GE yellow for a DPS-4 and got really good synergy with everything. I currently have a BM v2 on both my dac and integrated amp with Matrix speaker cables and the DPS-4 on the conditioner that feeds everything really made for quite a nice soundstage and gave me some of the best sound I’ve heard. Of course I’m not done and will continue experimenting with different setups but I’m pretty happy with the way things are. Would like to get more Matrix cables but need to save up. The journey continues....
t_ramey
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I'm really liking these Terzo ic's. Need to try the rhodium connectors on them but so far the cheap gold Furutechs are working well. Looking at the prices of already assembled pairs of Terzo ic's it seems the diy doesn't save as much money as it does with the power cables especially considering which brand and model connectors you choose.
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wig
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t_ramey,

My Terzo V2 were factory terminated with their latest Genesis RCA and it's a very good sounding cable with no brightness. Let us know how the rhodium works out.

Wig
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