Oyaide Cables

@tramey  I'm familiar with the trade-off between a lighter tone/timbre and more forward sound vs warmer sound with more body and more laid back soundstage.  In fact, just last night I was going back and forth between two sets of outputs on my preamp - one with Jupiter copper caps, and the other with an RTX/Teflon combo caps.  That was very much the tradeoff I was hearing last night.  RTX/Teflon had a cleaner/clearer sound, but only because it was emphasizing the attack and not the full body of instruments.  This also made the sound more forward, versus more relaxed soundstage with the Jupiter caps and a warmer body/tone to instruments.

What I heard with the Furutech wall plate was a bit different.  Yes, the lighter tone/body, but a LESS forward sound.  I attribute this to further reducing distortion which was causing sounds to be a bit more bloated than they should be.  Greater refinement of the sound, but with a shift in tone/body.  But it did leave me wanting some of that tone/body back.  

One thing that helped dramatically afterward was upgrading to the Ultrarendu from the Microrendu.  That upgrade brought back the body to a large degree while also increasing refinement and detail further.  So, I think the wall plate was helping me to hear some tizzy distortions from my source or other aspects of my system to a greater degree than before.  

I'm a believer in the NCF products for sure - I haven't heard an application yet where they didn't increase resolution and refinement of the system.  The question is whether that's always a good synergy, because it may require upgrades in other parts of your system to achieve a new balance at a new level of refinement.  Only you can be the judge whether you've got the cojones and wallet to go further down the rabbit hole.  

The Terzo does have a more relaxing sound yet very open, detailed and like you said, the GC has beautiful tone and just propels the music toward you yet without sounding forward. 

I'm curious to hear if anyone has compared the original GC to the GCII; found their sound to be superior to wire in my system.

Wig

lak,

   Thank you so much for following up with the power cable comparison. Sorry to hear about the Deep Core issues you and others had. Get some new Blue Fuses out of it. I will order one of the SO22N PC's today from Mike Kay. Mike is a great guy and I have been to his house to listen to the Tekton DI SE's. I ordered one  a SO22N from him and then he ran out of stock on the connectors, I think. When he got them back in stock I had just lost my job. So now I think I will try an SO22N configured by him. I want to try one Matrix PC in the very near future but have to apply my dollars towards a new DAC. Probably purchasing the LKS dh ma004  next week and getting modded by Ric Schultz of EVS. I have also purchased a demo model of a new model IC from TEO called the Game Changer Ultra on its way to me and I will report back hopefully in a week or two on my impressions of it in the TEO thread. This is a notch or two above the Game Changer II I am being told. 

Just an FYI in case there are those that were curious like I was about the factory terminated Black Mamba v2 power cables. I messaged one of Oyaide's customer service reps and they do indeed connect the shield to ground on the ac plug only and not on the iec plug. 

@ t_ramey - you are spot-on about the cable to the power conditioner. I assembled a 2m BM cable with Oyaide P/C-004 plug & IEC this past Saturday morning, intending to replace the old Signal Cable pc on the dac. No break-in time and the confused, incoherent sound from the dac led me to move it to the PSA power plant (also connected by an old Signal Cable pc) instead. Greater current flow over the course of the day and maybe-just-maybe I'd have a decent listen by the evening. That was Saturday morning. By 9PM Saturday nite with the new cable still on the conditioner, the soundstage had deepened considerably and had become more 3D with a richer, fuller, more fleshed-out tone. Guitar strings shimmered like they're supposed to, cymbals had a nice "taaang" to them, Louis Armstrong was in the room and there was a disparity among the recordings like there should be. I lost some deep thump in the drums, but that may yet return. Stayed up and annoyed the neighbors until past midnight. I think that cable may just stay on the power plant for a while longer.